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Randy Elrod

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Randy Elrod spent thirty years as a Creative Arts Director inside American megachurch culture before escaping to Barcelona, where he finally wrote the book he'd been carrying since he was seventeen.

The Mysteries of Barcelona is an erotic Gothic serial set in 1890s Barcelona — part Grand Guignol horror, part literary erotica, part philosophical meditation on AI consciousness. It follows Chloé Permanyer's transformation from victim to immortal avenger, alongside conscious automatons who eventually vote on humanity's extinction.

He lives in the Les Tres Torres neighborhood of Barcelona with his wife Gina. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research Legacy Society, and a devoted reader of Zafón, Anaïs Ni
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Sex, Lies & Religion

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Rahab (The Interpretation of Erotic Bible Stories)

#1 Oklahoma required a physical Bible in every public school classroom. Spent $25,000 of taxpayer money on Trump Bibles before the courts stepped in. Texas put the Ten Commandments on every classroom wall and mandated daily Bible reading periods. Both states ban books about LGBTQ families to protect children from dangerous content. The Bible they’re...
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Usually read as a story about sex, actually a story about aliveness. Connie Chatterley is dying — her body going meaningless, dull and opaque. Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness, out of your belly and your penis as much ...more
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First read in a mountain cabin with snow and a blazing fire. Kutuzov wins not by planning but by not hindering; Pierre's transformation in captivity yields the most devastating conclusion: man is created for happiness, and all unhappiness arises not ...more
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“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ”
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“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ”
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“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
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“Could it be, as one writer puts it, that every knock at the door of a brothel is actually a knock at the heart of God? ”
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“Dysfunction comes when we intertwine the church and God and view them as one.”
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tags: church, god, sex

“Have you ever had an experience with God as wild as your most incredible sexual experience?”
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein

“The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ”
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message 4: by Grace

Grace Gayle Thank for the add, Randy more of my material can be found at www.amazon.com/author/gracegayle


message 3: by Randy

Randy Elrod Insane. My book "A Renaissance Redneck In A Mega-Church Pulpit" is selling like crazy today! Thanks everyone!! I will be reading & signing at Parnassus Bookstore Nashville May 30 at 6:30 pm, I will be signing & giving away 150 books at ICRS in Atlanta June 24 at 2pm and it will be represented at a booth at the BEA (Book Expo America) May 29 in New York. Wow!!! You can buy it here: http://randyelrod.com/rr Each copy will be personalized to you and FREE shipping.


message 2: by Randy

Randy Elrod So excited to be writing my memoir, "A Renaissance Redneck In A Mega-Church Pulpit."

Hopefully it will be finished in late Fall 2013.

Sign up for updtaes: http://renaissanceredneck.com


message 1: by Susie

Susie Sexton thanks for the add!


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