My Life Under the Big Top

Download or read book My Life Under the Big Top written by Rev. David K. Fly and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his book, My Life Under the Big Top, the Rev. David Fly shares his lifes journey as a standup comedian, a professional television clown, and an Episcopal priest. The three roles became increasingly intertwined throughout his life. The big top of the circus came to represent for him the church with its sense of wonder and mysterya world from which no one is excluded. The role of the clown and the Christian is to play Stan Laurel to the worlds Oliver Hardy, exposing the folly of pretense and the vanity of pride. The book is both a memoir and a theological reflection.