Joyful Noises Excerpt

"I always had the feeling that the people in dad's congregation must have felt that God had some special way of feeding us kids, like with manna, the white stuff that the Lord sent down every morning and evening to feed the children of Israel..." - How I Got Hooked on Weddings

"By the end of our first year, we had written several sermons and delivered them in class. After the professor had blue-penciled them and criticized our delivery, you might say he had 'duly certified' that our sermons were fit to preach. Of course, that didn't mean they were inspiring or interesting or likely to keep anyone awake. It simply meant that they didn't contain any obvious false doctrine or inappropriate language. In other words, they were harmless." - Please, Pastor, No More Sermons in German