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10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You:

(But Can't, Because He Needs the Job)
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Macmillan, Mar 20, 2007 - Self-Help - 128 pages
"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?". In 10 Things, Rev. Thomas weaves a Christian theology for today that people will embrace as a guide to sensible, modern living.
  

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

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The author glorifies himself (or tries to) by going against the grain and taking religion to task for failing to tackle the tough questions in the Bible as masterfully as he does. But his reading of ...

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

User Review  - John Sands - Goodreads

The author's note page indicates his main perspective, something few author's do well right at the start. Oliver Thomas writes "But God is also personal. At least the biblical writers thought so." In ... Read full review

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Rev. Oliver "Buzz" Thomas is a Baptist minister and constitutional lawyer who over the last decade 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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