Benyamin Cohen Reading "My Jesus Year" @ Outwrite

Start: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 7:30pm

End: Wed, 12/09/2009 - 8:30pm

Benyamin Cohen Reads

My Jesus Year

@ Outwrite

About My Jesus Year:

One day a Georgia-born son of an Orthodox rabbi discovers that his enthusiasm for Judaism is flagging. He observes the Sabbath, he goes to synagogue, and he even flies to New York on weekends for a series of "speed dates" with nice, eligible Jewish girls. But, something is missing. Looking out of his window and across the street at one of the hundreds of churches in Atlanta, he asks, "What would it be like to be a Christian?"

So begins Benyamin Cohen's hilarious journey that is My Jesus Year—part memoir, part spiritual quest, and part anthropologist's mission. Among Cohen's many adventures (and misadventures), he finds himself in some rather unlikely places: jumping into the mosh-pit at a Christian rock concert, seeing his face projected on the giant JumboTron of an African-American megachurch, visiting a potential convert with two young Mormon missionaries, attending a Christian "professional wrestling" match, and waking up early for a sunrise Easter service on top of Stone Mountain

Location:

Outwrite Bookstore
991 Piedmont Ave NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30309-4108