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| Tuesday, 4 September 2007 |
| Review: I Sold My Soul on eBay, by Hemant Mehta |
I picked this up in the bookshop at eBay Live, but it's actually got very little to do with eBay. Hemant Mehta is an atheist who sold not his soul, but his time in an online auction - and was bought by an open-minded pastor who set him to visiting a variety of churches and writing about his impressions of them.
The result is a book that everyone in the religion business ought to read, a friendly but direct report on what church looks like to a stranger walking in for the first time. Rituals and liturgy which churchgoers take for granted can be arcane, even alienating to those who encounter them for the first time: Hemant, always writing from a wish to engage in friendly dialogue, tells you exactly what that stranger might be thinking.
But the message of this book is bigger than just a call to better churches. Hemant's open-minded willingness to examine his own beliefs, to discover the faiths of other people and to engage in a frank but always respectful dialogue, should be an example to all of us, whatever our religious beliefs.Labels: religion |
| posted @ 22:48 |
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