HarperSanFrancisco, 2006, 170, $14.95,
harpercollins.com
A few years back, Kilpatrick was a writer for the Assemblies of God. Then he took his family to L.A. and founded LarkNews.com, a Christian humor Web site. Now he combines some of the best LarkNews postings with new material to create this manual that takes a knowing-but-loving approach to some evangelicals’ major idiosyncrasies.
From his checklist of who is and who isn’t going to hell to his look at various evangelical eating and mating habits, Kilpatrick inserts his funny bone into the ribs of billions of well-meaning believers who have added boatloads of cultural jots and tittles to the Scriptures they claim guide their behavior.
If you know someone who is trying to figure out evangelicals — or if you know a few evangelicals who take themselves too seriously — a few minutes with this book (or the LarkNews site) should provide equal measures of enlightenment and laughter.
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Review by: Pat Angelo, freelance writer, Denver, Colorado.
