Fleeing Oz, by Eleanor L Tomczyk
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When you look around and realize that the people filling the pews in your church represent traits you find reprehensible, you can do two things. You can keep your head down and become like them. Or you can follow author Eleanor L. Tomczyk’s example, reexamine everything you believe, and write a hilarious memoir about losing your religion.
And that’s precisely what she does. Fleeing Oz chronicles Tomczyk’s journey from a wide-eyed, eager believer to a battered but not beaten refugee of the culture wars.
From her early days as an African American girl living on a cultlike communal farm with a bunch of white kids, to her final escape from organized religion right before Barack Obama’s election in 2008, Tomczyk tells her story with grace. Far from cruel or mocking, Tomczyk resists the temptation to do unto others as they have done unto her, choosing instead to use humor where others might use hate.
An edgy coming-of-age tale about a baby boomer who wants to follow God without getting crushed by God’s people in the process, Fleeing Oz will cause anyone who’s ever struggled with faith, doubt, and disillusionment to stand up and say “amen.”
Fleeing Oz, by Eleanor L Tomczyk- Amazon Sales Rank: #2087945 in Books
- Published on: 2015-05-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .48" w x 5.25" l, .49 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 192 pages
About the Author
Though retired now, Eleanor L. Tomczyk has worked as a teacher, an actress, a singer, and an award-winning voiceover artist. She is the author of Monsters’ Throwdown and a writer of the humor blog How the Hell Did I End Up Here?
Tomczyk currently lives in Virginia. She survived raising two children and now enjoys teaching her delightful grandson how to make cakes and tripping over two grand-dogs, Wednesday Addams and Chuck the Pup, when she’s not traveling the world with the love of her life. Learn more about her at www.eleanortomczyk.com.
This is her second book.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Must read! By Sarah K Whether you come from a church-y background or not, this book is a must-read. In today's religious climate, many of us are wondering "what the heck happened to the church?!" For all of us truth-seekers, there is a commonality in Eleanor Tomczyk's journey with American Evangelical Christianity and her exploration into why it is declining. Her experiences, and those of others she interviewed, shed a truthful and somewhat uncomfortable light on what much of the American church has become. With pithy humor, colorful stories (and language!) Tomczyk exposes some of the dirt that has been swept under the rug for decades - and challenges those of us who do want the "real thing" to keep seeking it, until we find it. Great read, loved it - couldn't put it down till I finished it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. She just calls it like she sees it By David E Boardman After reading this book I have found it difficult to get to sleep the last couple of nights. This raw expose succeeds in its attempt to bring the spiritual journeys of the author and others to life, to life awakenings. This book brought my personal journey as a Christian who tested the deep waters of the charismatic movement back to the surface, and I thought I had buried it 25 years ago. The author shares this journey in a no holds barred revelation of what she really thought in the wake of learning that the human condition didn't sprinkle from church leadership but stormed from them. Tomczyk accomplishes this by directing her thought processes in the form of written questions and personal observations to the Lord Jesus. The brutal honesty of this book is what makes it valuable. Any Christian person that reads this book will be challenged in taking personal inventory of what is most important and what is life giving to them spiritually. While you may or may not agree with Tomczyk's conclusions she doesn't ask you to. She just calls it like she sees it. I love the book. I highly recommend giving it a read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Healing and Liberating! By Sally McDonell I just finished reading “Fleeing Oz” I sat down to read a few chapters and found myself not being able to stop until I turned the last page and read the last sentence.Your story was liberating and healing to me. It finished a healing process that was begun years ago. I was also naive and idealistic and was taken in by the “Jesus movement” of the 70’s. I thought I was apart of something pure and holy that we were all on the same path. I was wrong. I continued to look for a church for years, one after another with the same disappointing outcome.Your book is funny, irreverent and brutally truthful. If you have found yourself disillusioned hurt and disappointed in the church you need to read “Fleeing Oz” It will set you free.Thank you Eleanor for another amazing book!Sondra
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