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On a gritty block in St. Louis, Mo., the Williams Temple Church of God opens for business each Wednesday with morning Bible study and closes with an evening seminar on debt management. "Satan likes to isolate you," intones the Rev. Maurice Bembry, who teaches the personal-finance class. "He likes...
Appropriately, "Dirty Stories" volume three ends with some original Tijuana Bible stories. While their appearance brings the modern works into a historical context, it's remarkable how "Abie the Agent," a story about a Jewish jeweler and his two-timing wife, trumps all the other work for outrageousness. Likewise "Hall...
Gary had problems at school because he was dyslexic, and was held back a year. He joined the Navy before he graduated from high school, and was sent to Vietnam. "He spent his time on rivers in patrol boats being shot at. These were things we didn't talk about...
There's nothing wrong with the Old Testament story of Esther--strong narrative, cool heroine. But that it should become the No. 1-selling children's video in America as reinterpreted by wisecracking vegetables is a little discombobulating. We are, after all, talking about kids' least-favorite food group. And...
But the irreverence has limits. "We will not portray Jesus as a vegetable," says Phil Vischer, 35, the Billy Graham-Bill Gates hybrid who made the first video in 1993 with fellow Bible-college dropout Mike Nawrocki. ("We failed chapel," Vischer says, because they were always up late the night...