Baby Boomer, Catholic schoolgirl (can readily identify any plaid ever used in a parochial uniform), and ’70s Playboy Bunny (another uniform—not plaid—blue satin), Barbara Camp insists that “God writes the best fiction, known as non-fiction.” Your Soul: Fixer-Upper or Tear-Down? (The Bible Blueprint for Renovation and Rebuild!) features her short stories that translate bulletproof, Biblical wisdom (both the Old and New Testaments) into everyman, everyday, modern metaphors.

Camp's self-described, personal, demolition derby is punctuated by big picture themes: cell phones (Tower of Babel); designer food (The Last Supper); feminism (Samson & Delilah); the Hudson River air strip (Jesus Walks on Water); DNA (The Creation of Adam); Christ’s promise of provision (The Fish & Loaves of Bread), and many more.

As we worship the created versus The Creator, our painstakingly shellacked exteriors house anorexic souls teeming with wildly dubious flim-flam. Popular thought continues to believe that the natural can cure the natural while habitually ignoring the supernatural!

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time and, as a primer, Fixer-Upper’s ancient to modern metaphors serve as a compass for both right-brain and left-brain thinkers—seekers and skeptics alike. Let not the herd mentality nor a cancel-happy culture hit “delete” on the ultimate VIP. If God is love, got God?

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about barbara camp:
Barbara Camp’s creative professions have included set designer & stylist, fashion makeup artist (Milan, London, Paris, New York), graphic designer, artist & illustrator, arts & design industry recruiter, and writer. She lives in New York City.