Kategoria BISAC: Humor >> Topic - Religion

Bare-Faced Messiah tells the extraordinary story of L. Ron Hubbard, a penniless science-fi ction writer who founded the Church of Scientology, became a millionaire prophet and convinced his adoring followers that he alone could save the world.

According to his 'official' biography, Hubbard was an explorer, engineer, scientist, war hero and philosopher. But in the words of a Californian judge, he was schizophrenic, paranoid and a pathological liar. What is not in dispute is that Hubbard was one of the most bizarre characters of the twentieth century.

Bare-Faced...

Don't waste your awkwardness.

One of the saddest realities of life is that the things we need to talk about the most, we tend to talk about the least--from bouts with depression to sexual struggles to parent-wounds that never seem to heal. Raise these issues out loud, and wait for the awkward silence. But those awkward moments are precisely where we find connection with God and one another.

In This is Awkward, Sammy Rhodes talks directly, honestly, and hilariously (because sometimes we need to laugh) about the most painfully uncomfortable subjects...

Moos in Shoes is the story of a small herd of discontented cows and one reclusive bull. The cows live busy but seemingly unproductive lives. Everything changes for the cows when a shoe-delivery truck driver, driving much too fast, loses part of his load of shoes on the cows' pasture. After a plethora of shoes explode from the back of the truck, the cows make a most profound fashion statement and discover something greater.

When Eloise Aitken Farren says, in the introduction to this book of tales from her life, that her only aim is to bring a smile to your lips, you'd better believe her. If you make your way through these ninety tales, ranging from the first five years of her life to the latter years of her work and residence as a Franciscan Sister in her forties (stories of leaving the convent and marrying the love of her life are not part of this memoir), you most likely will have increased your well-being by laughing out loud many more times than you thought possible And it's not just the funny things...

The American South is home to some of the best music, cuisine, athletics, whiskey, and weather the country has to offer, but its reputation as a haven for its "right-wing, Bible-beatin', assault-rifle-totin'" citizens precedes it--and, according to the Liberal Rednecks, rightfully so. Yet, as they explain it, the situation in the South is far more complex than "hypocritical,...