Benedict XVI
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This picaresque novel was published in 2002, three years before Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger became pope and chose to be called Benedict XVI. When he learned of the cardinal’s choice of a papal name, Wiebe immediately googled “Benedict XVI.” What showed up first on the screen was this novel. Checking further, he found that his site had already registered 9,000 hits; later, there were 30,000. But when googling the next day, he could not find the site among the first 100 listings. He concluded that either Google’s algorithm did not consider the number of hits required to achieve top billing, or that yes, Virginia, there is a Vatican Mafia.

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Christian Bride, Muslim Mosque
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An autobiographical, coming-of-age novel in which a young rogue learns why his great-grandma, a fine old Christian woman who spent her last years stretched out on a cot in her daughter’s parlor all dolled up in a black dress and a little silk hat and giving off old lady smells, had been married in a mosque way hell and gone out in the wilds of Central Asia.

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The Church of the Comic Spirit
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Rabbinical school dropout discovers the Bear Lake Scrolls, the original version of the Old Testament, then starts a new church.

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Dead White Male
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High school English teacher discovers he is Shakespeare reincarnate. Wife and daughter unconvinced; pastor has serious doubts. Only his grandson maintains a simple, childlike faith.

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