Table of Contents

Prologue1. Dear Child 2. A Slit of Light 3. Streetwise 4. Angels onHorseback 5. Becoming a Man 6. 'It' 7. A Starker Spain 8. Making it Big in the Next Life 9. Dutch Courage 10. A Dream of Marble Hills 11. Pig and Jew 12. Bus Stop 13. Home from Home 14. Granny's Juju 15. Chow 16. Guardian Angel at 17. The God Cage 18. Take Care - Take Care! 19. God Lies in Wait!20. Wrong Reasons for the Right Thing 21. Seven Deadly Sins on Holiday 22. Toothbrush and Paste 23. Badly Used 24. The Gnat 25. Cigarette and Handbag26. The case of the Bearded Bribe 27. A Whiff of Adultery 28. Louis and Lottie 29. The Birds of Torremolinos 30. Marbella (Where the Money is!) 31. Spiritual Walkabout 32. Lunatic but Loving33. He Who Hesitates 34. My Inner Journey 35. Anneliese's Guru Hunt& 36. A Dog who got above herself37. Falling in love with love 38. A Moment of truth 39. Damn!40. Look at the Birdie! 41. Gender Lessons of Travel& 42. To have your bone and eat it& 43. Marrow with a message& 44. The Bird at Christmas& 45. Strange holiday - The Real Thing!& 46. My friend Fred& 47. Barbecues and Babies& 48. Home call& 49. Mink Shrink!& 50. What the Rabbi gave to the Bishop& 51. My Paranoid Pooch; 52. Our incomplete world 53 Strewth!; 54. Real listening!55. Substitute for love 56. Loss of status 57. Is God snoozing? 58. Senile delinquent; 59. A piece of potato 60. The cost of coffins 61. Meeting the horizon

About the Author

Rabbi Lionel Blue was a British Reform rabbi and author who appeared frequently on the stage, on college podiums and on the radio; he was a regular and entertaining contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day.

Reviews

'Blue fans will love it...The tone is...light and chatty, and recounting anecdotes of everyday life in which God is announced in unexpected places and people. There are some memorable moments, such as the occasion when on which God said "Strewth". ~ Stephen R.White, Church of Ireland Gazette, 27/10/2006
*Stephen R. White*

"Religion can either make you very nice or very nasty" (Rabbi Lionel Blue)   "One of the places I get my own religious experience from is in the departure lounge of an airport or else sitting on the concourse of Euston Station. Seeing the arrivals and departures of people in some big London station makes you want to go up to them and cuddle them." (Rabbi Lionel Blue) Camden New Journal, 19th October 2006

'a unique voice on BBC Radio 4...with his idiosyncratic humour and profound wisdom. This is a charming, refreshing collection of his stories.' East Riding News, December 2006

'This is a charming, refreshing collection of his stories.' ~ Driffield Leader, Dec 2006

"Rabbi Lionel Blue bridges past and present biblical texts and speaks across diverse faiths, too."   Appeared in Woman's Weekly, 2008

"[T]here is much here for his fans to enjoy and reflect on."   Reviewed by Merly Hill in Baptist Times, 2008

'He is undoubtedly "an original". You have only to read a page of this book to realise it.' Mount Carmel

"At the moment, those in the ministry are keen to find a contemporary idiom for the gospel.  Maybe some of those who go to the West Coast at considerable expense in order to discover this elusive argot would do better to get this book and find a quiet corner on Boars Hill with Fr Livinus' imprint (cf. p. 108), to read it." -Nicholas Madden, Mount Carmel, July-Sept. 2010

'homely, everyday stories, disarmingly honest, and free of cant. They ae often funny - and so can be all the more poignant.'
*Church Times*

'a collection of more than 60 of Lionel Blue's stories, talks, broadcasts and articles...each one infallibly containing a nugget of wisdom leavened with humour.'  ~ Methodist Recorder, 09/11/2006
*Methodist Recorder*