Don't Touch Me!: Daily Stories of Gospel Relevance

Following a dramatic 2004 experience that propelled them to a life of itinerancy in Brazil and the U.S., authors David Catron and Barbara Bennett Baumgarten explore in brief, open letters to each other, one for each day of the year, how the gospels interact in their real flesh and blood lives, and how their lives inform the gospels. At once exhilarated and deeply suspicious by the intervention of the Spirit, they challenge themselves, each other, and you, the reader, to make sense of and to transform the distant biblical text into a living document with concrete applicability. In Don’t Touch Me!: Daily Stories of Gospel Relevance, their shared personal stories and points of view, at times uncomfortable, other times uplifting, sometimes a tad irreverent, coax the reader to join the journey, to allow his or her own real life experience to reclaim the gospels’ immediacy and relevance for themselves.