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Saving St. Savior’sis a satirical novel about an ultra-liberal pastor serving an aging church. His enthusiasm and ambitious ideas for the church include relocating its ministry to a nearby conference center, located in a beautiful setting by a river. Not everyone supports his plans or vague theology, however, and tensions arise over the move to the conference center, whether or not to save the church organ, and an unwarranted accusation of sexual harassment. Automatically suspended because of the complaint by the mentally unwell church organist, the pastor takes a sabbatical.

The war of words at Wyndover College begins with a single shot: a taboo placed on the word “moist” to placate a first-year student who finds the word repulsive. But then, things escalate when an anonymous voice of opposition takes on the college’s strongly pro-student president and his latest innovative program to keep students happy.

The entries, drawn from topics like sports, politics, science and nature, provide the same kind of applicability to daily life that characterized Jesus' parables. It was part of the genius of Jesus' teaching that he spoke of things that were common aspects of his hearers' everyday life, such as agricultural images like sowing seed, or domestic ones like a lost coin or old and new wineskins. Your Photo on God's Fridge Door provides the 21st century listener with images to which he or she can more immediately relate.