Bloodcurdling footage now available….At the newly redecorated Doctor Toboggans website.

See Zombait for yourself

Go there now.

When some people tell the story, following Jesus marks the end of all problems.

Birds sing, the sun comes out from behind the clouds, and you never have to eat leftovers again.

This has not been my experience.

Like every other facet of the human experience, conflict is not eliminated by the life of faith, just changed.

Recently, I had an opportunity to talk a bit about this at Lifelink Memphis.

After the talk, my words were smuggled out, one syllable at a time, by audio ninjas and lovingly reassembled inside the button-thingy below.

You don’t have to click on it.

But the ninjas will be disappointed in you.

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On May 28^th at precisely 6:32 pm, the normally quiet streets of downtown Memphis erupted into the flagrant flurry of festering flesh that is the annual Memphis Zombie Massacre.

The roads ran red with corn syrup as the undead participants faced a horror worse than their own potent halitosis…the sickening specter of Doctor Harold Toboggans.

Ever conscientious to cash, the Doctor dedicated himself to separating the recently reanimated from their money.

Joining Zombies Anonymous and Cerebitol AZ in the lineup of dubious products offered by Toboggans this year was the brand-new Zombait zombie distractant. (video to come)

For further accounts of this heart-rending event be sure to check out scribblescrawl, TheoGeo, Zach Breaux as well as the flickr photo pool and the Doctor’s own Facebook album.

Doctor Toboggans is coming for you.

And your now useless human currency.

Let’s not forget the painful lessons we learned last year.

You have been warned.

It’s a point of some irony that those who most loudly maintain that the Earth is a personal expression of God’s creativity and artistry are often the most silent when it comes to protecting that art from mistreatment and vandalism by humanity.

This disconnect is not lost on Jonathan Merritt.

His new book Green Like God gently takes this contradiction to one of the most conspicuous areas of environmental silence in American society, evangelical christians.

Being a bit outside of that target audience, I found the early chapters challenging to my patience. I kept asking myself, “How many Bible verses do you really need to justify doing the right thing?”

But over the course of the book I came to respect Merritt’s commitment to developing a solid framework for environmental concern, one grounded in the Biblical narrative and designed to outlast fads and shifts in public opinion.

You won’t find fancy or emotional language here, just patient teaching, sound theology, and the gentle encouragement to step outside political camps and view the earth from God’s perspective.

Merritt takes not just environmentalism, but consumerism and social justice as well, strips them of their divisive political trappings, and presents them as the spiritual questions that they are.

Green Like God invites evangelicals, in their own language, into a conversation for which they are long overdue.

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In which the ever-egomaniacal Doctor Harold Toboggans concludes his three-part assault on Church Health Center Wellness.

Will he finally cure the Center of its not-for-profit orientation? Does he ever find the elusive Dr Scott Morris? Can he truly prevent prevention?

Discover the answer to these and many more questions in this earth-shattering video.

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The Center Strikes Back

As much as I would like to believe otherwise, I’m afraid we’ve not seen the last of Dr Toboggans. I have no doubt that entirely too soon he’ll be fully recovered and inflicting himself yet again upon the defenseless city.

(shudder)

Although eager to finish his three-part series at Church health Center Wellness, Dr Harold Toboggans finds himself stalled by an under-performing workforce.

Watch as the dedicated doctor administers some motivational therapy to a delinquent member of his crew in this electrifying video.

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Labor Relations

Stay tuned for the long awaited third installment of the Church Health Center intervention: The Center Strikes Back.

In the now infamous Forbes article, Memphis was declared to be the third most miserable city in America. For therapist Dr Harold Toboggans this came as good news, for in his school of psychiatry, misery equals money.

Join the good Doctor as he takes to Beale Street and interviews some St Patrick’s Day revelers about their views on the true misery level of Memphis.

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Forbes Memphis Misery

And in two weeks…Church Health Center intervention part three: The Center Strikes Back

In which Dr Harold Toboggans, psychiatric scourge of Memphis, continues his intervention of Church Health Center Wellness, enduring the rigors of healthy snacks, lard-free recipes, and hordes of small humans.

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Night of the Livid Nutrition

Tune in March 15^th for the final chapter in the CHC saga: The Center Strikes Back

Meanwhile discover Church Health Center for yourself here.

What if you wanted to help out with some of the great volunteer programs that kept your community healthy and growing but weren’t exactly sure who needed what?

Whatever would you do?

Well, if you were in Memphis you could attend the Volunteer Expo this Thursday at Oak Court Mall.

From 4 to 7 pm, some eighty different programs will be represented and primed with opportunities for you to help.

It is an outstanding event that no one could fault.

Except maybe…

Dr. Toboggans?

But surely not even that paragon of mental malpractice and unadulterated ego would have the nerve to appear at one of the largest festivals of volunteerism in the nation.

Or would he?

Find out for yourself on Thursday.