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During my years at Yale Divinity School

I published a satirical essay sheet entitled

 Holy Smoke .
When the essays

were compiled for publication ( 1976 -1981 ).

 I chose to satirize the idea of a sacred

 text by using the black leather/gold leaf format

of the Bible, and dividing the essays into chapters

and verses in single columns.

 

Does my blasphemy

warrant my assassination ?
(1/18/2015)
 

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NB: In the second paragaraph of Sex at Yale "at third" should, of course,  read "a third".

Imagine :For thirty years that "t" has been waiting patiently to return to its home in the alphabet.

Published in Yale Divinity School's alumni publication April, 2013, in an article on
"Unconventional Ministries"

Review of Holy Smoke by Roland H. Bainton, Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale University Emeritus, submitted to Harry B. Adams, Assistant Dean
at Yale Divinity School.

I put these items away in my files and haven't looked at them for 30 years. Some are stained and worn, as Dr.  Bainton's review above.

What strikes me, as I read over the notes especially, is the kindness and generosity of people who had busy lives. 

I, of course, was young and self-centered and took all this for granted.

Alas.
The first item, by my friend in New Haven at the time, Tom Ward, has never been published before.

 

Paul Keane

Vermont, 2011