..but something from Monty Python is what occurs to me:

'And now for something completely different..'

'The number of the counting shall be 3..'

'I'm not quite dead yet..'

If you're not a MP fan, won't make sense I guess, but my son got a flying circus season, stuck in that mode. Could come up with hundreds of others, but if your thing, I'm sure there is a perfect one.

More musings from Real Live Preacher

'Real Live Reader' or 'The Real Live Reader'

(That's 'reader' as in collection of essays or stories, not a person who reads)

Tom

Furthermore: Fresh Ramblings of a Real(Remarkably Real)Live Preacher

Sit Down with Me

I Think of You as 50 People - love it

Well, only programmers would get it, but "#shing out my faith"

(In many programming languages, the '#' symbol is known as the "hash" symbol.)

Seriously? How about "Putting your faith on(the)line" Cover could be something referencing the online world again. But I think Tom's idea is better. "The Real Live Reader" works for me too.

I like Exegesis.

You need something eye-catching. Why don't you leave it without a title? I will definitly be interested by a book with no name if I ever see one.

Rafael

"Confessions of a Real Live Preacher"

Although, I like the Monty Python ideas too.

How about..."I Was Supposed To Be Anonymous"?

That's a very intriguing title. It would need a subtitle, perhaps More Musings from Real Live Preacher. Not sure about the suggestion to go without a title - libraries won't know how to catalog it.

I loved how you spoke of "my babies are coming home to me" in your essay on Eerdman's remaindering your first book.

How about (using your own words). . . "Each Creation is Like a Birth"

Riffing off the above: Real Live Stories and Real Live Ramblings; Untitled Preacher; whatever it is, I'm looking forward to reading it.

You've got so many great essay titles. Why not borrow one of them for the title of the book as well? Flipping through your back catalog, I see (in no particular order and without looking at the content of each essay):

Searching for Real Live Preacher (chimes with the title of the first book)

Modern Mythology (same resonance as "preacher" and "dot com")

Story, Redemption, and Time (that's what you write about, more or less)

Savage Joy (I love this phrase)

Open Communion (That's sort of what writing a blog is about, right?)

I Gave Myself Away (A theme of many of your essays.)

Body Language of the Soul (Just an appealing image.)

Virtual Pastor (Again, chimes with "preacher" and "dot com", and makes us all your virtual congregation)

A Book of Common Prayer (Perhaps even better shortened to "Common Prayer"? You're all about the democratic kind of faith...)

James, John, and Crazy Joe (says "This is about the gospels and also about real life" to me)

Words Fail Me (Nice irony for a book title, and suits your frequent theme about it being easier to sound good than to be good)

Any of those would be good, I think. Or any of a dozen others. Obviously you don't normally have trouble coming up with strong titles! Of course, using an essay's title might oblige you to include it in the book, and might give it a certain prominence that you might not want... But on the other hand maybe it can give you a sort of starting point, to build around.

Just my thoughts. How about "I Was Supposed To Be Anonymous" The subtitle being Real Live Ramblings from Real Live Preacher.

I like a few suggested. How about simply "50 people". I also like 'Virtual Paster' - or 'Virtual Preacher'

janet McKinney

Tertium Quid! Tertium Quid!

I like Real Live Preacher/Writer.com

A variation of Jeanene's. Exe-Jesus -- Reflections and Ramblings on Life as a Preacher

Real Live Preacher 2: Electric Boogaloo
Real Live Preacher 2: The Legend Continues

Let me know.

Title it with the title of one of the essays, with a sub title explaining some unifying theme. So: "Good Essay Title" and other musings (or writings, thoughts, or other appropriate noun) on.....[unifying theme goes here].

How about Real Live Preacher 2.0? Resonates with that whole "Web 2.0" thing...

I also really liked the suggestion of: Exe-Jesus -- Reflections and Ramblings [from Real Live] Preacher

so far from the suggestions I like "I think of you as 50 people," and "I was supposed to be anonymous." w/ some kind of subtitle, maybe. I kindof like Real Live Preacher 2.0, but it's not very captivating for those who don't already know what it is, if that's your audience at all. Who is this title supposed to appeal to? (people who already know your writing, or others?)

I like Exegesis and Exe-Jesus too, but would be afraid of it sending too "academic" of a message, and your approach is too real life for that. Also, it is less personal, less of who you are comes through.

Sadly, I don't have suggestions of my own!

Holly

"Real Live Preacher: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Psalms." If you happen to be a Dr. Strangelove fan.

"A Book of Common Prayer," mentioned above, might be my personal favorite so far.

Jeepers, these are all good ideas. I can't pick!!

I kind of like "so stuff I wrote"

I also life "I aint dead yet."

I really like "i don't have a title for this..."

However, what about Stuff: Life, the Universe, God, and ramblings of a Real Live Preacher.

Blessing,

Bill
bill.finley@gmail.com

I just wrote this whole long thing, and then I messed up and it didn't get posted. So, I think that was the Universe telling me not to be so verbose. Here is a synopsis:

I think you should call your book, "A Dangerous Man." You used that in reference to Foy, but I think, in many ways, it could also apply to you. I went into a lengthy explanation as to why in my other message, (which is now who knows where), and I don't think I can remember everything I said. But it had something to do with your writing making us think about things that might be uncomfortable, challenging the status quo, looking at both the bitter and the sweet aspects of life, love, and parenthood, and sometimes taking us to places dark and deep in the psyche. Not to mention that you use the "F" word. I know certain people of a particular religious bent who would find you to be a very dangerous man indeed.

So..."that's all I got."

(If the other message does eventually show up, too, I apologize.)

Two Simple Goals

Watching The Other Ships

Those are from a couple minutes skimming two of your most popular essays. What I'd do is look at the most self-revealing ones and find a place where you already described yourself. The one that sets off associations is the one. FWIW.

"I Think of You as 50 People" gets my vote. It just seems the most right to me, and it seems perfectly matched with what I have seen of Paul's artistic style. I wish I could explain better how solidly right and bangarang that title feels to me.

Okay, I really, really hate to admit this, but I don't get the "I think of you as 50 people." Really sorry, because, I think I might like it if I understood. Am I missing something? Sorry, I am an accountant, so bear with me all you right-brained people.

Hey Preach,

Thought of a title:

Blogiletics

Your old pal from Salon.com,

ppalooza

"Profane and Profound: A Second Collection From Real Live Preacher." I mainly like the 'profane and profound' part. I lifted it from Brother to a Dragonfly by Will Campbell... "Thad Garner was, I suppose, the most profane man I have ever met. And, I suppose, in a way he was also the most profound." You're certainly not the most profane man I know, but when I read this in the book you came to mind.

How about

"Real Live Preacher 2...
Confessions of an agnostic/misfit-Christian."

From - http://www.reallivepreacher.com/node/383

I rather like "Story, Redemption, and Time."

How about just "Not Dead". Kind of riffs off Everlasting Life message of Christianity - could be equally "not dead, yet" or "not dead, ever".

Or maybe I'm just spouting rubbish again (it happens *quite* a lot with me)

WaveyDavey

How about:
'Take it home in a brown paper bag' (then you won't have to change the cover)
OR
'Notes from Virgil' (as in "virtual" because you're not really "real live" when we're just reading you)
BUT
Of all the suggestions so far... My vote goes to "I don't have a title for this" (It's funny and it says something about the pressing and instant nature of blogging as a publishing medium)
Cheers!

Straight from "The Preacher's Story in Four Parts":

"I am a strange mix"
"The Preacher is Out of His Tiny Mind"
"I’m an idiot and out of my mind"
"Sue me"
"I will love"

Not so indicative of your later work of course, but still great soundbites.

Grace - The Morning After or
Faith - The Morning After

Something that suggests a torrid affair or a beastly hangover. Something sincere but exhausting.

OH!

RealLivePreacher.com - The Morning After.

...yeah.

GREAT Thoughts everyone. Thanks!

"Practicing Resurrection"?

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC30/Berry.htm

This poem made me think of you when I was introduced to it.

"Espresso"

"The Best Things in Life"

"Depth"

...O just pick your favorite essay of the collection and find a turn of phrase therein that you like...

humorous:
RealLivePreacher Unplugged
RealLivePreacher Strikes Back
More RealLivePreacher.com
Offline with Real Live Preacher

Serious
Views from the Porch
(See My House)

I like "I think of you as 50 people" and "I don't have a title for this", though I'd lean toward the first, as I'm fairly sure "I don't have a title for this" was included in the original collection and I'd only suggest using a title that hints at one of your essays if that essay is going to be included and it's going to be thematic to the book as a whole.

In any case, I'll be glad to have another collection of your work that I can hold and read when I want to be off the grid.

I'm not sure I'd pick up "I Think of You as 50 People" if I saw it in the bookstore. It may be too "inside." Just my opinion. I like "A Dangerous Man" a lot, as well as the idea behind ITOYA50P. Maybe something like it, but different.

A lot of my favorite authors steal titles from epic poems; Iain M. Banks, for instance; most of his titles come from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Maybe a line from somewhere that calls to and resonates with you?

What about "You Name It"? a pun yes, but also, it means there's just about anything and everything in there, AND more than that, it means that you let readers decide the impact of your writing on them without your direction.

And it really actually could refer to God, or religious experience, that defies easy labels- "you name it."

I really liked the title of "Hold You Me" - if you are including it in this work, you might call it "Hold You Me (and other stories and essays by Gordin Atkinson)"

"pactum serva"

Because you keep the faith more than anyone I've ever encountered, online or otherwise.

Access denied today. I got here through an old link....At least it's saying access denied now, before it was some weird "enter your password" page. Hmmm

Some great ideas here! Here are my two to add to the mix.

- "Not that you asked" - this assumes your blogging, stories and essays are not the result of questions, which some are, but it speaks to me of your sharing something from the inside, rather than something produced to satisfy external requests / realities

I was also thinking there might be something in the piece you wrote quite a while ago (which is printed and on my fridge door at home) that said something to the effect that you are just a guy with a bad haircut at a church I've never heard of, then you go on to say that we should listen to small things and release big things... I thought there might be something in there, but I couldn't that post.

In my searching, I read a way older post and it ended with this line: The mystery and the magic of it.
(from www.reallivepreacher.com/node/908). So that would be my second suggestion:
- "The mystery and the magic of it"

May the mystery and the magic of it continue to be a blessing to you as it is to me,
Jen

- Hold you me (I LOVE that suggestion).
- I think of you as 50 people (mixture of in-joke and just intriguing).
- For the love of words (I couldn't find it but I'm sure you had a short piece with that title??)
- Freckles and blue (it's just a beautiful pairing of words!)

xxx

I really like blogiletics

blogiletics

Main Entry: blo·gi·let·ic
Pronunciation: \ˌblä-gə-ˈle-tik\
Variant(s): or blo·gi·let·i·cal \-ti-kəl\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Modern English blogileticus, from English blogilētikos of conversation, from blogilein
Date: 2009
1: of, relating to, or resembling a blog
2: of or relating to blogiletics ; also : preachy

Preacher on Paper

Fake Dead Preacher

It's just the right amount of intrigue, controversy, humility, and reality to represent what I think you're going for.

After reading your first book, and the titles of your essays, I find it hard to believe that you can't come up with a title for a book. My favorite from "RealLivePreacher.com" is "You Ain't Jesus, Pastor", which I think would've been a great title for that book.

Have you looked through any of the essays, to pick something from what you've already written? I love it when an author tucks the title in somewhere within the text of the book, and you go, "oh, yeah, the 'Weight of Glory', I get it now." But, I'm kind of simple that way.

Here are some of my ideas:
"Can I get an Amen?"
"Out of My Tiny Mind"
"Let Me Say This About That"
"Preaching is Dirty Work"
"If it weren't for Jesus"
"The Incomprehesible Gift of Grace: And Other Things (That) (Astound Me) or
(Don't Make Good Sense) or
(Cool Things About God) or
(Defy Reason)
"Gulping Grace by the Gallon"
"Not So Pretty: Stumbling Toward Grace"
"If Love is From Your Heart, is Hate from your Butt?" (question my daughter asked me a few weeks ago, and I expect to see a blog about this notion soon..he he)
"Hear Ye, Hear Ye"
"Freakshow"
"Marginalized"
"Submissions From the Front Line"
"Can't Shake This Flesh of Mine"
"Have I Said Too Much?"
"Without a Filter"
"Making Things Fit"
"You Ain't Jesus"

: )

Playful mind games, or mind games

In the best sense of the word, obviously. :-)

pax,
meb

Keep it simple i say.

Seriously? How about "Putting your faith on(the)line" Cover could be something referencing the online world again. But I think Tom's idea is better. "The Real Live Reader" works for me too.

Seriously? How about "Putting your faith on(the)line" Cover could be something referencing the online world again. But I think Tom's idea is better. "The Real Live Reader" works for me too.

http://www.forumson.com

Seriously? How about "Putting your faith on(the)line" Cover could be something referencing the online world again. But I think Tom's idea is better. "The Real Live Reader" works for me too.

http://www.forumson.com

Submitted by Tom C (not verified) on Mon, 02/09/2009 - 10:31.

'Real Live Reader' or 'The Real Live Reader'

(That's 'reader' as in collection of essays or stories, not a person who reads)

Tom
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What about "One For You, Fifty For Me"