Post-Rapture Radio: Lost Writings fromthe Failed Revolution at the End of the Last Century
by Russell Rathbun
Category: Humor

Post-Rapture radio From Russell Rathbun--the man who has been dubbed the "Maureen Dowd of Preaching" by the Minneapolis City Pages--comes this boldly engaging fable. In this provocative and laugh-out-loud funny book, Rathbun explores the often uneasy relationship between authentic faith and its cultural trappings, which faith must try to make sense of. In Post-Rapture Radio, our faithful narrator finds a mysterious box containing the sermons and journal entries of a genuine, unvarnished American character--the Reverend Richard Lamblove. The little-known Lamblove tried and failed to revolutionize contemporary Christian culture. As his journal entries, cereal box scribblings, and random notes on paper scraps reveal, Lamblove sees contemporary culture as shallow, overly individualistic, and consumed with the kind of status measured by money, power, and celebrity. And American Evangelicalism--which has been integrated into the culture as a whole--has similar failings. Reverend Lamblove vanished with-out a trace, but Russell Rathbun has "compiled" his papers into a compelling critique of contemporary faith--an antidote to faith-as-usual and a wakeup call for Christians to genuinely respond to the gospel.