Post-Rapture Radio

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In Post-Rapture Radio, our faithful narrator finds a mysterious box containing the sermons and journal entries of a genuine, unvarnished American character the Reverend Richard Lamblove. The little-known Lamblove-tried and failed-to revolutionize contemporary Christian culture. As his journal entries, cereal box scribblings, and random notes written on paper scraps reveal, Lamblove sees contemporary culture as shallow, overly individualistic, and consumed with the kind of status measured by money, power, and celebrity. And American Evangelicalism--which has been integrated into the culture as a whole--has similar failings. Reverend Lamblove vanished without a trace, but Russell Rathbun has "compiled" his papers into a compelling critique of contemporary faith an antidote to faith-as-usual and a wakeup call for Christians to genuinely respond to the gospel.

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Russell Rathbun

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Religion & Culture Religion & Theology Religion u. Kultur Religion u. Theologie Spirituality & Spiritual Growth Spiritualität u. spirituelles Wachstum

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"Hilarious, passionate, infuriating, revealing, alarming,perplexing, illuminating. In short, apocalyptic. And definitelyrequired reading for anyone seeking a faithful Christianity in theheart of the American Empire." --Andy Crouch, columnist, Christianity Today "Once in a while a book reaches out from the page, grabs me bythe scruff of the neck, and says something so pithy, so smart, andirreverently funny that I almost bust a gut laughing. That's whatPost-Rapture Radio did to me on several occasions. The factis, sometimes satire is the best way for us to see our own foibles,and this book is a wonderful antidote to much that ails the church.It's A Confederacy of Dunces for Christians." --Tony Jones, author, The Sacred Way "Funny and thought-provoking. It challenges the way one thinksabout the gospel of Jesus Christ and the church in his name." --Gordon Gano, singer and songwriter, ViolentFemmes "Søren Kierkegaard said that people held in the grip of anillusion cannot be directly reasoned with. One must assault themwith appealing but apparently absurd stories and evencontradictions in the desperate hope that indirect communicationcan accomplish what direct communication cannot. Russell Rathbunmay be Kierkegaard's great-grandson or something. If you have noillusions, you don't need to read this. Otherwise . . ." --Brian McLaren, pastor (crcc.org), author, A New Kind ofChristian (anewkindofchristian.com) "There are times when the tongue-in-cheek can become a light inthe mind--when 'off the wall' becomes the plank of reality.Richard Lamblove was a driven crusader in his last-ditch standagainst the shallowly fervent. I feel the fury in his futilelyscribbling a final battle plan on the remnants of cereal boxes andscraps of cardboard. Alas, were it not for Russell Rathbun, wewould not know of these lost writings nor feel the loss of greattruth to the forces of evangelical glitz." --Calvin Miller, author, A Hunger for the Holy and LovingGod Closeup; professor, Beeson Divinity School
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