__'What do you do when the Second Coming is scheduled for next Wednesday? . . . Assemble at your nearest church? Make sure you've got clean underwear on? Confess those last sins? Send some goodbye texts to unbelieving friends? Take Paracetamol in case the rapture gives you the bends?'__Those and other neglected theological questions are rigorously examined in this book. With its gently satirical take on some of the weird ways in which people express their beliefs, it's a book that will help you appreciate the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. Whether you're a believer or a non-believer, fond of religion or a more than just a bit suspicious of it, you'll find your assumptions are far from safe after reading it!

Simon Jenkins

1 Lives of the coin-operated saints

2 Pulp testimony

3 The new new atheists

4 Love me, love my dogma

5 Jesus shaves

6 This never happened to John the Baptist

7 The seven deadly chocolates

8 Name that church

9 The dove was a ghost

10 Not very English

11 Ask Jesus

12 Gideon’s camouflage Bible

13 A bone to pick with relics

14 Badvent calendars

15 Oh em gee

16 Be an angel

17 Naked Bible reading

18 The 75 per cent rule

19 On holiday with the Lord

20 Ginormous Jesus

21 Typing in tongues

22 Nothing at all

23 What’s the drill for Judgment Day?

24 The invisible man of Christmas

25 We need to talk about Satan

26 Rev revelations

27 Does Jesus have GSOH?

28 A pomposity of clerics

29 Christian porn

30 Bots on pews

31 Swell to great

32 A Bible in emoji

33 The dating of the New Testament

34 The Everlasting Arms

35 Bosoms and ebenezers

36 Twerking comes to Narnia

37 Will Jesus find me a parking space?

38 The Christingle banana

39 Baptizing a Martian

40 In praise of holy fools

‘What do you do when the Second Coming is scheduled for next Wednesday? . . . Assemble at your nearest church? Make sure you’ve got clean underwear on? Confess those last sins? Send some goodbye texts to unbelieving friends? Take Paracetamol in case the rapture gives you the bends?’  
  
Those and other neglected theological questions are rigorously examined in this book. With its gently satirical take on some of the weird ways in which people express their beliefs, it’s a book that will help you appreciate the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. Whether you’re a believer or a non-believer, fond of religion or a more than just a bit suspicious of it, you’ll find your assumptions are far from safe after reading it!

This book highlights the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. It looks at religion gone wrong, gone right, or simply gone AWOL. Above all, it asks readers to own up to being fallible and human and therefore, by the grace of God, a little more tolerant of those who see and do things differently.

The humble jumble sale and the mighty Apocalypse don't obviously have much in common, except that they're both part of Christianity. Much attention has rightly been paid to the Apocalypse and all the big things of Christianity, but there's also surprising value to be found in the small and neglected things - things like holy shopping items, such as 'What Would Jesus Do' boxer shorts, the Seven Deadly Chocolates, leopard-skin coffins, talking tombstones and fluffy loo covers printed with the words, 'Let my people go'...Jumble Sales of the Apocalypse invites you to ponder the deeper meaning of these things, and to consider neglected questions such as, 'What do you do when the Second Coming is scheduled for next Wednesday? ...Assemble at your nearest church? Make sure you've got clean underwear on? Confess those last sins? Send some goodbye texts to unbelieving friends? Take Paracetamol in case the rapture gives you the bends?' This hilarious book highlights the true value of religion by exploring the comedy of its wilder excesses. It looks at religion gone wrong, gone right, or simply gone AWOL. Above all, it asks readers to own up to being fallible and human and therefore, by the grace of God, a little more tolerant of those who see and do things differently.

Simon Jenkins is a celebrated Christian satirist, cartoonist and broadcaster: founder of the Ship of Fools online community, and author of the bestselling The Bible from Scratch. He writes a monthly theological humour column for Reform, out of which this book has grown.

Well earned laughs and the end of the world, this hilarious book explores with candid humour some of the small aspects of Christianity we all know.

\["For fans of Jeff Lucas","This book in an amusing look at unasked question of Christianity ","You'll see hilarious new sides of faith gone right, wrong, and wacky"\]

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