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Cancer Is Funny: Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo
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“This is not a book for people who have cancer. This is a book for people who are mortal.” –Brian Zahnd, Pastor of Word of Life Church
Jason Micheli, a young father, husband, and pastor, was diagnosed with a bone cancer so rare and deadly that his doctors didn’t classify it with one of the normal four stages—they simply called it “stage-serious.” As Micheli struggled with despair and faced his own mortality, he resolved that although cancer kills the body, it would not kill his spirit, faith, or sense of humor.
Micheli knew that the promise of faith makes hope possible. And approaching cancer as fodder for some bowel-busting humor helps, too. His reflections are not trite. Instead, he writes honestly about being stricken with lethal cancer in the midst of a promising career and raising two young children. He struggles with his commitment to the God who, as he writes, may or may not be doing this to him. Because figuring this out for himself—not to mention explaining it to his congregation and his sons—is so important that theology is now a matter of life and death. This is a funny, no-holds-barred, irreverent-yet-faithful take on a disease that touches every family. Micheli’s story teaches us all how to stay human in dehumanizing situations—how to keep living in the face of death.
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Interviews
Religion News Service interviews author Jason Micheli
Interview with Jason Micheli on Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang on SiriusXM Radio
Interview on The Drew Marshall Show podcast
"Embracing Comic Tragedy" on Progressive Spirit radio show
Reviews
"Laughing at what’s not funny": review in The Christian Century
Review on Ponderings on a Faith Journey blog
Review on Pop Theology
Review on Alexandria Stylebook
Review by Kansas City Star columnist Bill Tammeus on his blog Faith Matters
Review on Foreword Reviews
Review on Midwest Book Review
Review on The Englewood Review of Books
Review in The Presbyterian Outlook