Gone AstrayGone Astray
a Collection of (sac)religious Cartoons by Jim
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eBook, 2018
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Current format, eBook, 2018, , Available but not Holdable. Offered in 0 more formatsChurch folk often take ourselves too seriously. Jim's warm-hearted, but edgy, cartoons help us to see the funny side of church life. No one is spared - clergy, organists, parishioners - all get a gentle prod. Good, thought-filled fun, well balanced between the trite and the bite of cartooning humour. Crazy Christians - fuming fundamentalists - loopy liberals - batty believers - oddball organists - vivacious vicars - peckish preachers - antsy angels - Elvis, Jesus and the occasional sheep. This book proves why religion and cartoons are a dangerous mix. You might just die laughing. Jim has been drawing (sac)religious cartoons for more than 10 years. This is his first collection. "If you've ever been a member of, or simply attended a church for any length of time, you might find some characters to be quite familiar. You'll meet conservatives, liberals, fundamentalists, progressives, grumpy Lutherans, crazy Anglicans, Buddhists, rebels, organists, terrorists, organists who are terrorists, angels who are pigs, agnostics, antagonists, atheists, and Jesus himself ... who I don't think minds being drawn. First up though, you'll meet a guy called Jeff. If you can follow the thread of his spiritual journey over this decade of cartoons, you'll have some small sense of my own path during that time. By the end, I hope you'll feel that maybe cartoons and religion aren't such a bad mix. After all, they do have a lot in common. Both are paths to uncovering truth and revealing the meaning of life. But while religion is about finding order and solace in the face of the apparent random swirling chaos of the universe, cartoons are about laughing in the face of that terrifying reality. I hope you'll find something in these cartoons which will provoke some deeper thought about those realities, as well as a few laughs."
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- Wellington, New Zealand : Philip Garside Publishing Ltd, 2018.
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