Scott & Jesus: Lost Comedy Duo of the Scriptures

By Steve Case

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. Too often our faith is like wearing a T-shirt that’s two sizes too small. We keep trying to pull it and tug it and all the while it feels like we are slowly suffocating.

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. The finger pointers and the self-appointed judges of what’s appropriate and what isn’t sit in the back row and scowl. They sing Joy to the World as if it were a funeral dirge. They say, “Stop that laughing. You are in CHURCH!”

YOU ARE ALLOWED TO LAUGH. Jesus did. He must have. How could any human being (or divine being) made of love and joy spend all his life being a scowler and fun-spoiler?

This book is the comfy flannel night-shirt counterpart to that too-tight T-shirt we are so often forced to wear when we talk about faith and religion. Sit back. Relax. Oh, and it’s probably best not to drink coffee sitting across from someone you love while reading this book. Just fair warning. It’s okay to laugh.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John R. Mabry
• Release date: May 3, 2019
• ISBN: 9781949643152

Steve Case

Steve Case is one of America’s best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs, and a pioneer in making the internet part of everyday life. He cofounded America Online in 1985, when just three percent of people were online for an average of just one hour a week. He saw the possibilities of the digital future and built AOL into the largest and most valuable internet company in the 1990s (and the first internet company to go public). Case’s passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. He was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership—an effort launched at the White House in 2011 to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship in every region of the country. Case also was the founding cochair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship.  He was active in passing the bipartisan JOBS Act in 2012, which made it easier for startups to raise capital. His engagement on policy led Politico to name him “Washington’s tech whisperer” in 2017.  As chairman and CEO of Revolution, a Washington, DC-based investment firm he cofounded in 2005, Case partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build businesses such as Zipcar, Sweetgreen, Clear, Tempus, DraftKings, and many others. Case also serves as chair of the Smithsonian Institution, which under his leadership has launched a bold effort to make the best of the Smithsonian available to every home and classroom. He is also Chairman of the Case Foundation, and with his wife Jean was among the first to commit to The Giving Pledge, dedicating a majority of their wealth to charitable causes.

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