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What's it like, growing up in a Fundamentalist church, a Fundamentalist home, with a Fundamentalist preacher for a dad? It's a worldview like no other, especially for a Seventies kid reaching for the stars. This warm and humorous memoir explains what it's like to love the Beatles from afar; to experience Rapture Terror and a sex talk about Debby Boone; to long to play rock and roll in an ecclesiastical home, to be drawn to science while in a Young Earth Creationist church, and to live and breathe Star Trek for all the wrong reasons. The Smell of the Lord is a journey through a very different time, when a very different sentiment about the church and its role in society prevailed, and even the politics of guilt and fear seemed, well, more innocent. It's a coming-of-age tale, the story of a boy with his eyes on the stars who can't walk straight on the ground, wandering around in a wondrous past where the music on the horizon is a piper's call - and the road ahead leads anywhere but home...

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