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The Rotisserie Chicken Gospel

Author Susan Isaacs on comedy, church hopping, and having a 'middle-class white girl's Dark Night of the Soul.'

Interview by Katelyn Beaty | posted 7/01/2009 09:17AM

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But ultimately, I realized that if it was a marriage between me and God, I married God for his money. I married him for what I could get out of it. I was one of those horrible trophy wives who are only in it for the stuff. I needed to learn to love God anyway. I realized God put me on the barbecue spit, that he burned off all the entrapments and scaffolding that had been erected around [my life]. I had a picture of being barbecued on a barbecue spit, like one of those rotisserie chickens. Then I realized, Okay, he's going to put breath back into me and put my life back together, but on his terms, and without all the stuff I had attached to it.

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andy tucker jc 1

Posted: July 05, 2009 5:18 PM

I think that reality can be very funny. sin is seriuos. sometimes you do not have to make up stuff just listen to what goes on. Jesus loves all of the children of the world. Amen! Evil targets helpfulchristian people.Thank you for your time. Please becareful azusa K. Rorabaug! and M. Morrow, k. Baitey of u evan and txas U laur paolini. if you are decated christians. MARRY me andy jesus tucker of IN. amen!! col 3:11. rev 12:9. Do not care about trials. Christians are being trianed. Join Jesus Christ nation(alter beleiving, brown white cross). gods voice is straight straight above. watchout for peer pressure and tricksters. Thanks christianity today.

Bill McCready

Posted: July 02, 2009 5:06 PM

Wow! I'm a pastor who likes to use humor in my messages a lot. I have done some stand up at different times, but I feel it's a call to make the Good News seem like it's good to hear, too. I've been getting hammered a lot lately by the Serious Police, who think that being funny from the pulpit is somehow not being serious about God. Thanks for the reminder that God is snarky, and that a whole generation of people are staring down the barrel of a Christ-less eternity if they don't hear how much God loves them, even if they have to laugh to get it. I was blessed by this, thank you!!!!

Patrick Gann

Posted: July 01, 2009 2:40 PM


I need to read this book. Love the gold tooth story. The shocking lamentation at the end... "but I miss that fire, that passion, that power..." yeah. Definitely. Thanks for the interview CT!

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