Charlie Brown Religion

<p>Charles M. Schulz's <em>Peanuts</em> comic strip franchise the most successful of all time forever changed the industry. For more than half a century the endearing witty insights brought to life by Charlie Brown Snoopy Linus and Lucy have caused newspaper readers and television viewers across the globe to laugh sigh gasp and ponder. <em>A Charlie Brown Religion</em> explores one of the most provocative topics Schulz broached in his heartwarming work--religion.</p><p>Based on new archival research and original interviews with Schulz's family friends and colleagues author Stephen J. Lind offers a new spiritual biography of the life and work of the great comic strip artist. In his lifetime aficionados and detractors both labeled Schulz as a fundamentalist Christian or as an atheist. Yet his deeply personal views on faith have eluded journalists and biographers for decades. Previously unpublished writings from Schulz will move fans as they begin to see the nuances of the humorist's own complex intense journey toward understanding God and faith.</p><p>"There are three things that I've learned never to discuss with people" Linus says "Religion politics and the Great Pumpkin." Yet with the support of religious communities Schulz bravely defied convention and dared to express spiritual thought in the "funny pages" a secular mainstream entertainment medium. This insightful thorough study of the 17897 <em>Peanuts</em> newspaper strips seventy-five animated titles and global merchandising empire will delight and intrigue as Schulz considers what it means to believe what it means to doubt and what it means to share faith with the world.</p>