Still Crazy

A lovely lighthearted commentary and observations on life with a religious slant by the Christian author. Don’t be put off if you’re not religious as this is more of a sub thread and it’s a very open minded religious stance anyway. Lots of varied topics are covered, such as growing older, covid, hobbies you’re good or maybe not so good at and what is love. The observations are very astute, done with excellent humour and are genuinely thought provoking. I’m (moderately) religious so missed some of the backstory to the passages in the bible mentioned which left me vaguely intrigued and slightly frustrated. Google wasn’t an option as I’m on a caravan holiday in Wales with zero phone signal but hey ho not too much missed to ruin the thread. Definitely a good light hearted read, which can be broken down into chunks and picked up and down when you get a few moments. Recommend.

Plass takes us behind the curtains of a creative efforts to pull Christians out of their trances. With nuanced perspectives on biblical stories and church basement meetings, you’ll be laughing with, perhaps at, the foibles of our unexplored faith stories. Sometimes the book feels like a giant stream-of-consciousness blog but then shocks you when you actually ponder the questions, the paradigms of the author’s take. We too often are content with “Sunday School” answers—the ones drilled into us by well-meaning teachers and preachers—that we recite when we merely ask the basic questions around life’s circumstances. But if we change the question, as Plass does, our rote answers no longer work, and then we have to figure them out for ourselves. Plass keeps us from mindlessly responding with book-learning, memorized, spoon-fed faithful cliches. He admits he doesn’t have the answers but he has plenty of questions.