David Hayward, the self-styled “Graffiti Artist on the Walls
of Religion”, is promoting his new book, The
Liberation of Sophia (available on Amazon, naturally, for a mere $26.99,
and if you think I’m going to link to that for him, you have another think
coming). Sophia is a book of 59
cartoons with associated poetry and prose that … well, you can read his
description of the work because I’m not sure I can do it justice:
“He began drawing images of a young woman in all kinds of situations. He recognized early on that these drawings weren’t just random pictures, but were the articulation of his interior life’s journey through spiritual, emotional, intellectual and social transition. He realized that Sophia was him!”
David Hayward calls himself the Naked Pastor (when he’s not “Sophia”,
I suppose). I haven’t yet discovered why, but since the name is eminently
Google-able and mildly transgressive, we can probably guess: Marketing 101. And
it works. He’s the number 6 most-visited “Christian” blog this week, and
climbing.
But the Naked Pastor has a thing about the Bible’s sheep
metaphors.
He really, REALLY hates them.
