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Overall, this book is a rote rendering of very important aspects of living a prayerful life. There is far too much filler content, which can often be due to the terms of the author’s book contract. A longer book nets a larger advance, more dollars, and a bigger “book deal.” I’m grateful for the book, though, because it made me think about how to rescue my prayer life from mediocrity. 

In his famous parable of the wheat and chaff, Jesus clearly differentiated between the children of God, or the good seeds, and the chaff, who are the wicked among us. In Monetizing Jesus, by Glen Randall Bell, PhD, he gives us the tools of discernment, so we can clearly separate the wheat from the chaff.  

I stumbled upon Keith McNally’s memoir in my usual awkward, almost bumbling fashion. I happened to be in New York City with a friend. I had long promised to take her to Balthazar for breakfast. Four empty tables away sat a man alone with his laptop and a book. Astonished that he sat at a table for so long without being gently prodded to get on with it to make room for the next guest, I struck up a conversation.

Remember The Godfather? Don Vito Corleone was ruthless, but he had a good heart and a sense of fair play. Italian immigrants were treated unfairly in America and called Wops, Dagos, Greaseballs. The Mafia took root and grew in America, so people could make a living. The way Don Corleone worked with the five families is the same way Jeffrey Epstein worked with the Elite.