Cancer Is Funny: Keeping Faith in Stage-Serious Chemo

This is not a book for people who have cancer. This is a book for people who are mortal.--Brian Zahnd Pastor of Word of Life ChurchJason Micheli a young father husband and pastor was diagnosed with a bone cancer so rare and deadly that his doctors didnt classify it with one of the normal four stages - they simply called it stage-serious. As Micheli struggled with despair and faced his own mortality he resolved that although cancer kills the body it would not kill his spirit faith or sense of humorMicheli knew that the promise of faith makes hope possible. And approaching cancer as fodder for some bowel-busting humor helps too. His reflections are not trite. Instead he writes honestly about being stricken with lethal cancer in the midst of a promising career and raising two young children. He struggles with his commitment to the God who as he writes may or may not be doing this to him. Because figuring this out for himself--not to mention explaining it to his congregation and his sons--is so important that theology is now a matter of life and death. This is a funny no-holds-barred irreverent-yet-faithful take on a disease that touches every family. Michelis story teaches us all how to stay human in dehumanizing situations--how to keep living in the face of death.