Ten farář je nějakej divnej, o farářkách nemluvě – Palán Aleš (2025)

An impractical fool with his head somewhere in the clouds. A portly prelate with an insatiable appetite. Such are the perceptions of clergy held by a significant part of our society. Not that such people don't exist, but among priests and priestesses, we can also find quite different types.
An intellectual you are most likely to meet at a hockey game or in a pub. A farmer who has the most time on weekends because otherwise he is always fixing something in the barn or sitting behind the wheel of a combine harvester. A trainer of guide dogs who enjoys going to church as much as she does to non-church settings. A rock musician who hosts a show about hardcore music on a youth radio station.
These are the personalities that manage Czech and Moravian parishes and congregations. It is precisely with such individuals that you will meet in this book. The book "That Priest is Somewhat Strange" presents seven interviews with clergy from various Christian churches (Filip Boháč, Alexandra Jacobea, Pavel Jäger, Pavel Semela, Sandra Silná, Petr Wagner, Jan Wirth). It showcases not only their unique interests but also a similarly unconventional way of thinking about faith and non-faith, about themselves and about us. Perhaps this is the way to bring Christianity closer to people for whom visiting a church seems entirely unrealistic. They assume they will encounter the medieval there.…