THE BEST PRESENT EVER: A SINNER'S GUIDE TO THE HOLY LAND
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I didn't want to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land because I thought it would be hot and dry and boring, and I'd have to drag around on someone else's schedule with a group of serious religious types looking at one ancient shrine after another. No, thanks. This is what I told my wife every time she asked me to join her and her parents. Then a week before Christmas, in my usual state of panic over what to give her, I signed up, put the receipt in a box, and gave her the gift of myself.
Two months later we joined a Dutch couple who owned a Catholic gift shop; a soft-spoken priest devoted to Mary who had never been to the Holy Land before; some Americans; an opinionated Eastern European teacher and her Hispanic photog husband; two young Brazilian lads learning to be tour guides; and thirty Filipinos oblivious to the shopaholic stereotype for a once in a lifetime experience.
Laced with humor and purposefully non-preachy, The Best Present Ever: A Sinner's Guide to the Holy Land, lays bare the narrator’s unfiltered (not always very Christian) thoughts and observations as the days and nights unfold. Experience the unequaled work ethic of the ubiquitous hawkers, an argument at the Shrine of the Nativity involving a female Russian tour guide, a night-time lovers tiptoe across the rooftops of old Jerusalem, an impromptu sojourn through the poverty-stricken Muslim District of Jerusalem that the narrator will never forget, the narrator's disastrous three minutes at the Tomb of Jesus, and his pilgrimage-ending confession described by the tour group priest as "a good one.” The bus driver is Muslim, the tour guide is seriously Catholic, and the story is universal...how do we all get along?
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I didn't want to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land because I thought it would be hot and dry and boring, and I'd have to drag around on someone else's schedule with a group of serious religious types looking at one ancient shrine after another. No, thanks. This is what I told my wife every time she asked me to join her and her parents. Then a week before Christmas, in my usual state of panic over what to give her, I signed up, put the receipt in a box, and gave her the gift of myself.
Two months later we joined a Dutch couple who owned a Catholic gift shop; a soft-spoken priest devoted to Mary who had never been to the Holy Land before; some Americans; an opinionated Eastern European teacher and her Hispanic photog husband; two young Brazilian lads learning to be tour guides; and thirty Filipinos oblivious to the shopaholic stereotype for a once in a lifetime experience.
Laced with humor and purposefully non-preachy, The Best Present Ever: A Sinner's Guide to the Holy Land, lays bare the narrator’s unfiltered (not always very Christian) thoughts and observations as the days and nights unfold. Experience the unequaled work ethic of the ubiquitous hawkers, an argument at the Shrine of the Nativity involving a female Russian tour guide, a night-time lovers tiptoe across the rooftops of old Jerusalem, an impromptu sojourn through the poverty-stricken Muslim District of Jerusalem that the narrator will never forget, the narrator's disastrous three minutes at the Tomb of Jesus, and his pilgrimage-ending confession described by the tour group priest as "a good one.” The bus driver is Muslim, the tour guide is seriously Catholic, and the story is universal...how do we all get along?
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U.S. RESIDENTS: $20 (I'll cover the taxes & shipping)
INTERNATIONAL RESIDENTS: Please buy from the Amazon service in your country or contact me for a quote using the Contact Page.
Sláinte!
