I’m a Southern Baptist Deacon in my 60′s. I was given a Christmas gift “Beers of the World” by a couple of the young men in the college Sunday School class I was teaching at our local county-seat First Baptist Church. (Then they stuck around to try a few of them with me.)

I suggest giving the kids a link to one of the many “Christian Naturist” websites and perhaps offer to take them and their parents for an afternoon around the pool at a naturist resort. (That would also be good therapy to make them less fearful of the Sears catalog.)

“Numb” might be a particularly good song:

“I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless lost under the surface
Don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes…

“Can’t you see that you’re smothering me
Holding too tightly afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you…”

- Bruce Cockburn CDs

- a book or two on Renaissance (and later) art (it’ll have plenty of nudes, and they’ll have been painted and sculpted by Roman Catholics *and* Protestants! And lots of them will be ***Bible characters***!!!)

- African and/or hip hop dance lessons
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- tkts to “RENT” (or some other “subversive” musical)

- Day of the Dead paraphanalia [sp?] (t-shirt, little sugar skulls, etc.)

- complete set of Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs + Season 8 comics

- a video of the KODO drum troupe from Japan (gigantic ritual Shinto drums played by almost-naked guys ‘n gals!!!)

- Tinky Winky backpack

- a trip to the Church of St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane, or a Coltrane icon to hang on the wall + a copy of “A Love Supreme” (church site is here)

- a free (as in, “on the gift giver”) pass to an introductory life drawing class

- a lesson on the proper way to make a Black & Tan (with Irish punkers playing in the background)

That should keep ‘em busy for a while.

Ah, yes, Old Doc Kellogg. Someone to remember next time you sit down to a bowl of cornflakes.

The even funnier thing is that a lot of what was in the movie went on during that time period especially the “medical” acts performed to relieve women’s hysteria. — Radagast

You mean like rampant Hysterectomies, or just the gallon-sized yogurt enemas?

“A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold

“The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth” by E.O. Wilson

“The Bible, Rocks, and Time” by Young and Stearley or “Creation and Time” by Ross

“Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger” by Sider

A big book on the history of art

“Church History in Plain Language” by Shelley (I know someone else already mentioned this) or a subscription to Christian History magazine.