The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer

 

ISBN: 1-930074-17-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-930074-17-0 161 pages $14.95

 

"Ruthlessly funny." - Publishers Weekly, 9/11/06

"Any Mormon with the slightest sense of humor ... can look forward to getting this book as a stocking stuffer." - Salt Lake Tribune, Inside Utah, 11/16/06

Mormon Church member Christopher Kimball Bigelow, co-author of Mormonism for Dummies, has compiled the best news of Zion (the Mormon kindgom on earth) and its Latter-day saints.

Mormons, lapsed Mormons, in-laws of Mormons, and neighbors of Mormons will enjoy these cutting-edge news reports, opinion pieces, and advice columns about this all-encompassing religion with its odd beverage rules and worldwide sales force.

Staffed by a team of crack reporters, The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer reports the stories that are too offbeat, dangerous, and – worst – inappropriate for the mainstream news outlets, such as "SpongeBob Receives Mission Call," "BYU Offers Scrapbooking Degree," "Poll Reveals Majority of Men 'Highly Satisfied' with Patriarchy," and "Gay Polygamists Make Bid for Legitimacy."

 

The Mormon Tabernace Enquirer, born of the online newsletter The Sugar Beet, was conceived, written, edited, and printed all within the shadows of the LDS temples of Salt Lake City, South Jordan, and Provo, Utah, making it, in the words of Elder Bennett McConkie Wirthlin, “... the most correct book since the Book of Mormon.”

 

 

 

Publishers Weekly review of The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer (9/11/06):

If a mature religion is one that can laugh at itself, then Mormonism is growing up. The ranks of the heretofore slim world of LDS satirists (dominated by cartoonists Pat Bagley and Calvin Grondahl and columnist Robert Kirby) have been swelled by the next generation: this compilation of ruthlessly funny articles is as irreverent as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is decorous. The book is edited by Bigelow, co-author of Mormonism for Dummies and co-founder of The Sugar Beet (an LDS version of the satirical publication The Onion). Bigelow and his staff of Sugar Beet writers, whose identities are hidden behind ultra-Mormon pseudonyms, ferret out the delicious humor tucked away in Mormonism’s quirkiest doctrines and cultural extremes in articles like: “Gay polygamists make bid for legitimacy”; “Zions Bank offers financing for scrapbookers”; and “Elvis Presley accepts posthumous baptism.” The humor grows mostly out of the rich soil of Wasatch Front culture, so some of it may go over the heads of converts to the faith, and many stalwart Mormons would declare the writing dangerously “light-minded.” But a solid core of LDS (and LDS-raised) readers will find The Enquirer a tie-loosening, glue-gun melting pleasure—and an excellent Christmas gift for friends and family.

 

A FULL PAGE review in the Provo Daily Herald 12/9/06: http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/202632/

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