Arriving in Fort Myers late Thursday night, I began this quick trip home. Tomorrow is convention; I have to leave the house at 5:30am in order to get there on time as it is a 2 hour drive and visitors have to come early in order to get a seat. It will be good to see a lot of people I know and have not visited with in quite some time and I am anxious to see how our convention works, having never been to one before.

On the flight to FL, I finished Christopher Moore's Lamb (The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal) and it was awesome! Not only was it both clever and funny, but I noticed quickly that Moore was remaining faithful to the core of the Gospel message, which made an impression on me. There were many parts where I laughed out loud at Moore's guess as how things happened during the Messiah's formative years. He carries the story all the way to the conclusion, though gives about as much time to the Resurrection as Mel Gibson did. What was funny, and I thought a testament to Moore's ability as an author, was that during the Passion Week, the same kind of jokes were cracked among the characters, the same kind of silly things happened, but then they only elicited a smile out of me and hardly a chuckle out of the characters. Everyone knew what was going on. I was impressed by Moore's ability to make me feel that as well. In the author's note at the end Moore writes that he made some theological assumptions before writing the book, namely that Jesus was who the Gospels said He was. I could tell that well before reading said note. So, I do highly reccommend this novel to you and will give you the same advice the author gives: if you are going to be offended by this book, perhaps you have some more praying to do anyway.

-R