In Pursuit of Health and LongevityIn Pursuit of Health and Longevity: Wellness Pioneers through the Centuries

Cal Samra

Award-winning Joyful Noiseletter Editor Cal Samra, a health and humor historian at age 87, takes you on an adventure to meet a host of health pioneers down through the centuries. They include religious leaders of all faith traditions, medical doctors, scientists, dieticians, nutritionists, body builders, professional athletes, agnostic philosophers, comedians, conservatives and liberals. You'll be amazed at how much they agree on what it takes to live a healthier and longer life – advice which has long since been forgotten or ignored.

The adventure starts with Hebrew prophet Daniel (circa 620 BC) and proceeds down through the centuries to Jesus and the Apostles, the third-century Greek physicians, the Franciscans, John Wesley, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ellen White, Sojourner Truth, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, the Hindu Swami Vivekanada, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Catherine Doherty, Linus Pauling, Jack LaLanne, Patch Adams, M.D., Mehmet Oz, M.D., professional athletes like Tom Brady and Serena and Venus Williams, long-lived comedians like Bob Hope, and many others.

The book, which one health pioneer wrote "reads like a documentary," is fully indexed and designed to be a resource book for health professionals, pastors, and anyone wishing to live a healthier and longer life.

The author pleads with pastors: "While you're teaching people how to get to Heaven, how about teaching them healthy lifestyles to survive on this earth?"

Perhaps it is time that seminaries, divinity schools, and churches introduce health and longevity classes, including good nutrition, physical fitness, and even yoga. Possibly that may be the key to a true revival.

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Holy Humor and More Holy Humor

Cal and Rose Samra

The contributors to Holy Humor and More Holy Humor have been called "the world's funniest Christians." These two rib-tickling treasuries of Christian joy and humor — from the first 10 years of The Joyful Noiseletter — together have sold more than a half-million copies.

Each book features about 100 cartoons by 16 gifted cartoonists, including Bil Keane, creator of The Family Circus, and Johnny Hart, creator of B.C., and an avalanche of healing humor, knee-slapping jokes, clean limericks, bulletin bloopers, and "jestimonials." Conveniently arranged by topic or month for easy use, both books are also fully indexed.

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More Holy Hilarity

Cal and Rose Samra

A collection of favorite jokes, inspirational humor, and cartoons from The Joyful Noiseletter. Here is the hilarious sequel to the best-selling books, Holy Humor and More Holy Humor, effectively disproving any notion that Christians are relentlessly dour, melancholy, humorless, and joyless.

This book is packed with more side-splitting clean jokes, uplifting stories, one-liners, bulletin bloopers, out-of-the-mouths-of-God's-kids, joyful Scriptural references, and priceless cartoons. The book is fully indexed for quick reference for pastors, public speakers, teachers, and health professionals.

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Jesus asked us to “be of good cheer.” For 33 years we have offered books and prints which focus on the joy, humor, celebration, and healing power in our Christian faith.

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