On 11 July in St Paul, the Irreverend Singleton will be presenting a two-act play titled "On Patriarchs and Penises", which promises to be delightfully rude and will almost certainly give the accommodationists the vapors.
Park describes the scene: "The stage is black and bare except for a pulpit, a small altar bench, three rickety folding chairs, and a coat tree, all starkly white. Brother Sam, in his signature frock coat, blue vest and matching spectacles, conducts the crowd through a hilarious and hair-raising tour of his childhood among 'the tongues-speaking, snake-handling, frothing-at-the-mouth holy rollers,' and subsequent 'reversion to the atheistic state into which we all are born,' before ending Act I with a mercilessly satiric deconstruction of the role of God in American life."
She notes that the second act has Brother Sam teaching a "biblically accurate but somewhat irreverent "Bible class" in which Brother Sam satirically details the symbolic use of penises throughout the Scriptures. "Nobody ever told me that what ties the whole book together, its narrative thread, is penises,' he says.
I think I'm going to have to try and make it to this one.
(via The Sunny Skeptic)
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