Free Download of Churched by Matthew Paul Turner
Here’s something I think a lot of you may enjoy. You can now get a free download of Churched, Matthew Paul Turner’s story of his life in fundyland:
Free is good. I like free.
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first.
You showed us
Just wait until I start changing all of your comments to say what I think they should. That’ll _really_ show you.
Power corrupts.
I thought that “site owner” didn’t approve of the “I’m first” thing.
Don’t worry, Darrell, I smelled bullsh*t when he posted it.
ROFLOL – I was wondering when you would do that, Darrell.
second.
third.
So, what do you think of your other brother Darrell?
forty-bajillionth
Yesss!
First after Darrell and his two brothers
correction , after Darrell and his forty-bajillion brothers named Darrell.
He’s everywhere!
First non-American….
Free is good.
And I’ll claim first idiot.
Second idiot.
Make that “immature” idiot.
(Watch for my new magazine, “Modern Immaturity.”)
Can I just be an idiot?
I am officially both an idiot and immature.
Ooops, forgot my winksy.
Anybody else have trouble getting the files to play in itunes?
I am playing it in Windows Media Player, not having any problems.
Hey man,
If you change the “mp3″ to “m4a” in the file name it should play in iTunes fine. Sorry about the extra work.
@mpt …Would you sign my electronic Bible?
Seriously, Thanks for making it available like this!
oh, I see! I wasn’t the first one! Ignore my dumbness!
Worked fabulously, and it restores the metadata that I was wondering why they didn’t supply either. Odd problem & fix, but appreciate the tip!
Thanks! Working great now, and just uploaded to my iphone.
OK, I downloaded it, unzipped it, and changed the file extensions from mp3 to m4a, and it plays in iTunes. Next question: in the folder the files unzipped to, the chapters are in alphabetical order by title. Can someone post a link to the table of contents, so I can listen to the chapters in order?
Got that myself out of the book last night. Leading 0′s for obv reasons.
01 – prelude
02 – God’s New Digs
03 – The Fundamentals
04 – Easy Like Sunday Morning
05 – Haircut
06 – Twelve Minutes
07 – Jesus in Black and White
08 – You’re a Big Boy Now
09 – To Hell and Back
10 – You Know Where Liars Go
11 – Brought to You by the Letter D
12 – Seven
13 – Fertile Soil
14 – Satan Rules!
15 – Win a Soul, Win a Prize
16 – Piano Boy
17 – Benediction
Matthew Paul Turner also wrote a book about how music played a role in his spiritual life. It’s called “Hear No Evil”. He tells some funny stories about his fundy upbringing in that book too. It’s great.
Haven’t read that one, but several years ago, I read his “The Christian Culture Survival Guide”. When I discovered this blog, I found it very similar in tone and content.
I’ve wanted to read this! And free is great!
You know, Darrell, you could find a script that mimics what Slashdot does to their “first”er crowd. They just replace any instance or variation of “first” (just the trolling variety) with a completely different word that I’m not entirely comfortable posting on a religiously-oriented blog.
And if that word were randomized, rather than always replacing it with the same word…well, things could get *extremely* interesting around here.
Frist Prost
This is a great book!
Not first.
I just read this and laughed and almost cried and nodded knowingly.
My response was pretty close…although I think I cried. It was too familiar.
I cannot get the download to work…
Trying out my new name. Sweeeey
^ Grin.
make that sweet
Nice new name.
I’m 27th, Woo-hoo!!!
NOW IT’S FREE? After I spent $$$ on it last month????
I’m sure Matthew appreciates your support
I’m the first Irish, Southern, Hair-dressing, Cop’s Wife, Dog-lover, NC-ian, Writing, Coca-cola-loving, Chocolate-addicted female to comment on this post!!!!
Woo-hoo!!!
(thanks for the idea, Singular)
I had to buy the book!
OK, so I downloaded, and I can play the mp3′s in real player (yeah I know, who uses that?), and in windows media player, but really just want it in iTunes, and it doesn’t even add let alone play in itunes. Suspect it’s a codec thing, that I’m missing. Anyone else have that prob, and know the issue/fix? I don’t feel like trying 10 diff codecs till I guess the right one.
iTunes uses mp4′s… You can download a free converter off the web. I use Free Converter. Works perfect.
mpt gave the secret away 4 *hours* before I even asked. Don’t even have to convert them, just rename the file extension to m4a instead of mp3. Also restores all the MP3 metadata that is missing & uneditable in the downloaded format.
LAST!!
NO, I’M LAST!
sorry, you’re both wrong..
But you were first to be last.
Am I now the last to be first? I am so confused now.
I think we’re going to start needing to keep records.
There’s also an autobiography about a guy who went to Bob Gray’s school, in Texas, saw it on Amazon. Anybody else see that?
Texas Baptist Crucible by James Spurgeon. It is very good.
So it’s an audio book?
indeed.
and I can’t figure out how to download it.
figured it out!
Please help me. I can’t figure out how to change the extensions for the files. When I look at them, I don’t see that they have an extension.
What operating system are you using?
Just finished the book. Brought back a lot of memories.
Listening to this now and a lot of resonates with some of the wackiness that I experience in the extreme version of fundamentalism. Only thing, wonder why did the author change names, there was a spot on of the tracks where he does a reversal or change and was definitely referring to Hyles Anderson college, why use a fake name, just name all of them… so we can stay far far away from them! Looking forward to the rest of the story….