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    10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
    10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
    10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
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    10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)

    By Rev. Oliver Thomas

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    A well-known minister speaks from the heart to all those centrist Christians looking for a way to worship God in today's world

    "How did it all begin?"
    "What happens when we die?"

    These are just two of the questions Reverend Oliver "Buzz" Thomas hears centrist Christians asking as he travels across the U.S. and he knows that their voices are not being heard. They're people of faith, not of politics, and they want more from their religion than a voter's guide.

    In 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You (But Can't Because He Needs the Job), Rev. Thomas has written a book that will become the liberal Christian answer to The Purpose Driven Life. He writes sensitively about the reason we were put on this earth, the significance of the Bible and how one pleases God. He answers difficult, contemporary questions like "What about homosexuality?" and "What about other faiths?". Rev. Thomas weaves a Christian theology for today that people will embrace as a guide to sensible, modern living.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateMar 20, 2007
    ISBN9781429917148
    10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You: (But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
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    Rev. Oliver Thomas

    Rev. Oliver "Buzz" Thomas is a Baptist minister and constitutional lawyer who has been at the frontlines of debates regarding religion, science, and education. He currently serves as executive director of the Niswonger Foundation and lives in Tennessee with his wife and two daughters.

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      10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You - Rev. Oliver Thomas

      Preface

      You can learn a lot about America by reading the New York Times bestseller list. What we like. What we don’t. What challenges us or makes us laugh. It’s a CAT scan of the nation.

      One recent Sunday morning, I turned to the list and was jolted to find that two of the top three works of fiction were religious. Not that I dislike religion. I’m a minister, for Pete’s sake.

      It’s that I had forgotten we were so religious. Not just the 40 percent who pack the pews each Sunday morning. All of us. Unlike our European counterparts, Americans yearn to connect with the eternal.

      Despite MTV, Howard Stern, Paris Hilton, Monica Lewinsky, the Super Bowl halftime show, hip hop videos and all the rest, America remains a nation hungry for spiritual direction. We want to believe. (Just look at the number of people who still follow Jimmy Swaggart!) And we want our busy-beyond-measure lives to count for

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