A week or two I picked up this book from the student bookstore and have been reading it constantly, forcing myself to read only one chapter a day so I have time to chew on what the author writes. This book, like only so few have, sends the wheels in my head turning. It is written by a Christian who became disenchanted with American Christianity and decided to take American Christianity and compare it to the radical call of Christ. He says, "We have taken a Mediterranean peasant revolutionary and turned him into an American pop icon." The book has been drawing up wells of questions within me:

"What does a Christian--according to Jesus--look like? What does an American Christian look like?"

"Why don't we really follow Jesus anymore? Sure, we try to be better people, but that's not what it's about."

"Why have we made Christianity so complex when it is so simple that even little children can enter the kingdom of GOD (and they enter easier than most adults!)?"

And, on a personal level, "How much do I really represent the character, nature, and work of Christ?"