A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to a Funeral Contributor(s): Auchmuty, James a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1949888118 ISBN-13: 9781949888119 Publisher: Parson's Porch OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Protestant |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.37 lbs) 140 pages |
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Publisher Description: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to A Funeral may seem inappropriate as the title of a book that talks about deaths and burials. But as a former teacher astutely observed, words have uses rather than meanings. Funny is one of those words. Something may be funny/ha-ha--amusing, humorous or funny/odd--unusual, out of the ordinary, even weird. And there are times when a thing is simultaneously funny/ha ha and funny/odd. My experience across more than sixty years of ministry has included all three uses, and that fact began early. Though a Baptist, I began like a Methodist serving a circuit of two rural churches. They referred to me as their pastor, but I was more like what the Air National Guard calls a "week-end warrior." I was a college student in Birmingham, the churches were 120 miles away in Chambers County, and I had no car when the first one called me. One met on first and third Sundays, the other on second and fourth Sundays. On fifth Sundays I went hungry And to keep things interesting, though the churches were in the same Alabama county, one operated on central time and the other on eastern. I discovered this pattern applied in ministering to those who were genuinely grieved as well as to those, to put it nicely, "less emotionally stressed"; of whom there are many. Moods and happenings have run the gamut from: pious to secular; heart-breaking to funny bone-tickling; sublime to ridiculous; holy to irreverent. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to A Funeral, therefore, seemed most appropriate as a title. |