Do you find it difficult to read through the Bible? Easy to read, easy to understand, easy to memorise, 1001 limerick verses sum up the whole Bible for anyone who can't face reading it in the original! Praised as being faithful to the text, each limerick is numbered for easy reference, indexed by themes and people, The Bible in Limerick Verse will help you move onto the real thing, both for enjoyment and spiritual enlightenment. Christopher Goodwins has been an Anglican Parish Priest for forty years, and has spent all his ordained life getting people to read the Bible intelligently, but also for fun.
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Sharp, funny, St Paul meets Edward Lear...and lives. ~ , Church Times
I want to say to every reader of The Bible in Limerick Verse: Don't be in a hurry. Do not be deceived by the apparently simple approach that has been adopted. Give yourself time to read - perhaps to read aloud - to reflect, and to find for yourself the abiding truths that lie at the heart of our Christian faith. ~ John Moses, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral
A tour de force. Old wine into new bottles! How much easier it will be for us to remember the answers in the Catechism - the first step to living by them . . . ~ Professor Sir John Grimley Evans