Off the Rails

by John Waterhouse

Nothing raises eyebrows and blood pressure like politics. And no single term in American politics has become as divisive as the name Evangelical. How did the word Evangelical become so polarizing? How did it become a political label? Are all Evangelicals pro-Trump? If you have asked these questions, wanted to ask these questions, or wondered why people ask these questions, this book is for you. In Off the Evangelicals, Power and Politics, John Cabascango, author of Throwing Moses Under the A High School Teacher looks at the Ten Commandments, returns to examine the involvement of Evangelicals in politics, but also the history of a movement that has gone from relative obscurity to an insider's place of power in just a few decades. If you are an Evangelical Christian, this book is for you. If you are a Christian but not an Evangelical, this book is for you. If you are not religious but curious, confused, or concerned by our present political state, you're included as well. Come take a look at how we got to where we are and the cost if we continue to move in the same direction.

91 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1973

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Railway Comedy - full of comedy from the 1970s in a sort of carry-on way and amusing in a dated sort of way. Interestingly John Waterhouse is still writing plays now and it would be interesting to compare the humour to this early play.

Act 1: Harry Bentwhistle runs a small railway station. He receives a letter saying it is closing. He has two assistants who are both incompentent in his opinion and he is quite desparaging about them using words like "retarded". Colonel Throgmorton and Miss Hickery arrive - representatives of the railway company telling Harry he has a reprive because an atomic plant is being built just near the village. A Mr Aneurin Jenkins arrives, a shopsteward who is dismayed to find there is no pub in the village for his men

Act 2: Harry has made a bar in the station for the men. However much as he tries to keep the men happy he s informed that there is going to be a strike because one man refuses to join the union. Harry invites this man Sam to convince him to join and gives him copious amounts of whisky to achieve this aim. Colonel Throgmorton returns and Harry panicks and hides Sam in a cupboard and tries to hide all the evidence of there being a bar in the station. The Colonel ends up storming out and hitting his head on the temporary pub sign and knocking himself unconcious.

The Colonel has lost his memory and is put in bed upstairs. When he wakes Harry tells him he is a pedfood salesman called Mr Brown. Harry is getting hysterical trying to control everything and Maudie his long-suffering wife has had enough and threatens to leave him. Aneurin Jenkins the shopsteward is dating Harry's daughter Gladys but he won't have the man in his house. His daughter is angry with him also. Then Aneurin turns up to tell Harry there is going to be an unofficial strike - due to Sam riling them up because they don't have their wives with them. Harry wants the men there to keep his job and Percy comes up with a plan of where they might stay, so Harry thinks he has solved the problem. The Colonel then takes another bang on the head and remembers who is is and is furious. Miss Jenkins then arrives to announce the building of the plant will not now go ahead! Harry's station however is to be kept open as an example of how not to run a station. A royal train is due and everyone springs into action to prepare, bunting up, clothes changes, music on gramaphone - the train goes straight through.