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Jimmy Watson, being from West Texas, would understand the description of 'hitting someone with a two-by-four in order to get their attention.' Big Jesus is a literary slam against a long-accepted but seldom challenged Christology. In the spirit of George Carlin or Lewis Black, Watson uses satire and acerbic earthiness to kick some props out from under an ancient dogma. You may throw this book against the wall more than once. But pick it up and keep reading. There is something increasingly valuable here. --Gary West, pastor, Grace Baptist Church, Statesville, NC Imagine that you are sitting in a rural Texas truck-stop diner overhearing a couple of guys at the next table talking about Jesus in the colorfully ribald and iconoclastic language of dismissive humor, and down home, mesquite grilled, thick steak, pickup truck driving, frankness. Now imagine that the two guys at the next table are Paul Tillich and Rudolph Bultmann. That's the sort of informed but accessible conversation Jimmy Watson has published in this nakedly honest work about the Jesus that can survive the critical thinking of the modern era . . . the only Jesus that's really worth talking about. --Roger Ray, pastor, Springfield, MO and author of Progressive Faith and Practice Watson invites us to accompany him on a wild, entertaining, enlightening, provocative quest for the flesh-and-blood Jesus among the likes of Big Jesus, Badass Jesus, and the Christinator. You've never read Bultmann, Brueggemann, or Borg? No problem. Watson explains the big-name Christologists in down-to-earth language, salting tough spiritual questions with laugh-out-loud humor. An honest guidebook for any fearless twenty-first-century pilgrim searching for a Jesus worth finding. --Robert B. Pettit, Professor of Sociology, Manchester University, Manchester, UK Jimmy R. Watson is a United Church of Christ pastor currently serving in the Indiana-Kentucky Conference. 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Watson believes nothing is more pretentiously self-pious than to write something and call it a devotional unless one has already been canonized as a saint. An Undevotional is not a spoon-fed offering of theological niceties, but rather a head-spinning array of possibilities into the mind and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth with contemporary applications. At times irreverent, at all times interesting, this book is un-indispensable for Jesus devotees and un-devotees alike. As a priest, ordained after nine long years in Roman Catholic seminaries, I am somewhat allergic to devotional writings. They bring to mind hair shirts and self flagellation, or overly sentimental 'oh's and ah's.' If you are a pure-like-the-first-snow nun, or anointed-to-worship-in-tongues born again Christian, you may find this undevotional not only unsatisfactory, but also unholy. However, if you happen to be one of those who try to make sense of the ancient story of Jesus in this very postmodern world, Jimmy Watson's book might just be the straw you need to clutch at. Unconventional, but easily understandable, this undevotional makes it possible to be a sane believer once again. --Marek Bożek. Pastor of St. Stanislaus Polish Catholic Church in St. Louis Jimmy R. Watson is the senior pastor at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Ferguson, Missouri. He has served congregations in Texas, Missouri, Indiana, and Kentucky. 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