The roadshow features Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette, who are on a 32-city tour crisscrossing the country in a bio-diesel RV.
The trio has attracted praise and criticism for their writings. Jones is the author of The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier; Pagitt has written A Christianity Worth Believing; and Scandrette has published Soul Graffiti: Making a Life in the Way of Jesus.
“This will be unlike any book tour people have seen,” said Jones. “We’ll be barnstorming the country, shaking the rafters with our ancient-future message of hope.”
The trio will play six characters in their 90-minute show that includes book readings and musical theater. The show opens with them as 1908 revivalists in the tradition of Billy Sunday – Preacher A.L. Withee (Scandrette), Big Brother Duke (Pagitt) and Professor A.W. Hawthorne (Jones). They’re even bringing their own “healing balm.”
Jones told the Omaha World-Herald, “It’s a fun take on the history and ideas of the faith, with laughs and songs, but also a definitive message.”
Attendees will have an opportunity to meet with the authors following the show.
