Publisher's Synopsis
Playboy Bunny Barbara Camp cordially invites you to a G.S.I.-God Seen Investigation. On the Seventh Day God Rested presents timeless Biblical truth made modern-its table of contents alone previews the infinite territory covered in this encyclopedically varied adventure.
Of 33 stories featured: Parting of the Red Sea celebrates space-age cancer treatment, Tower of Babel examines excessive cell phone usage, Samson and Delilah evaluates feminism-forty years later, Creation of Adam chronicles DNA, Daniel's Lion's Den mirrors Wall Street, Temptation in the Garden occupies present-day Iraq, and in Jonah, Seventh Day explores the cacophonous distraction eclipsing the most important voice of all-God's:
"I reckon we live in the most intellectually and psychologically interesting time in history. When else did you have the luxury of listening to a Strauss waltz and reading Shakespeare or the Greek classics while revving from zero to a hundred in sixty seconds on FDA approved, mind-altering energy drinks, doing your laundry and cloning your livestock or even your pooch? There's so much to do and we do it all. "
Ultimately, you won't need the isolation of that whale's belly to "get it". Read this book. And fasten your seatbelt-the fingerprints are everywhere.
Foreword
"Mystery and evidence." For nine seasons on C.S.I., I've portrayed a character that solves the crime by placing interconnected pieces of the evidence puzzle together. Add "life and coincidence" to "mystery and evidence" and you've got G.S.I., a "God Seen Investigation" if you will. The following collection of stories, "evidence" of God's fingerprints in everyday life, is witty, thought provoking and deeply inspiring.
From Spartacus to Solzhenitsyn to Stradivari to Sammy Sosa, this book is a potent cocktail of informative, brightly colored, spiritual confetti-shaken and stirred. Consider as well the highly original art illustrating the book, often by cerebrally abstract association, and there's plenty of spiritual food for thought here.
A fellow Chicagoan, I met Barb twenty-five years ago at plays staged by the beloved Remains Theater. We may not share identical views-however from bunny to Bible scholar, it's been mildly entertaining over the years to see her, quite unexpectedly, settle into "the last person I ever expected to become, a theologian!" But there's theology, and then there's On the Seventh Day God Rested, a uniquely intelligent collection of stories representing a spiritual life well lived. And interpreted.
-William Petersen
