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Book Review by Rod Dreher – Liturgies Of The Wild: Myths That Make Us, by Martin Shaw

“Martin, who rediscovered his childhood Christianity after age 50, when he had a series of miraculous experiences, and who converted to Orthodoxy, is helping us Christians rediscover the weirdness, the wildness, of our religion. His new book, Liturgies Of The Wild: Myths That Make Us, is a stunner.”

The God of the Christians was a scandal from beginning to end. He was born a fugitive and died an outlaw, and then had the audacity to come back. He is the most countercultural God of them all. The bravest, the strangest, the most mystical. Don’t go anywhere near him if you want your life to stay just-so.

Become a saint.

“By the way, Martin has a YouTube series called Jawbone, directed by Isaiah Smallman, who also directed the Live Not By Lies movie. Isaiah got the idea after traveling to England and going into the forest with Martin and a group for contemplation. You can lose yourself in the Jawbone videos. Here, for example, is Martin on the wildness of Christ. Listen to this man’s voice. A prophet, aye. A prophet who loves Jesus of Nazareth and a pint of Guinness!”