Best-Selling Author A. J. Jacobs Speaks at St. Luke’s

• Date/Time: Tuesday, March 2 at 7:00 PM

A. J. Jacobs is the bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically, and St. Luke's is pleased to welcome him to Indianapolis to speak about his experiences during our Lenten focus on "Spiritual Spring Training." Jacobs speaks with humor and candid insight about his journey during a year of trying to live by and sort through hundreds of Biblical edicts. Purchase tickets online.

A.J. Jacobs’ book, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, is a New York Times bestseller and has garnered rave reviews around the country. For this book, he attempted to abide by the hundreds of rules in the Bible, from the famous (the 10 commandments, be fruitful and multiply) to the often neglected (stone adulterers and avoid wearing clothes of mixed fibers). Jacobs manages to find humor in his attempts to comply with the more arcane strictures, but also, somewhat unexpectedly, finds comfort and meaning in both the rituals and the meaning of the Old Testament. The book has been optioned by Paramount Pictures.

Jacobs is the Editor-at-Large at Esquire magazine, where he writes feature articles and Universal Studios has optioned his 2006 article “My Outsourced Life.” For the piece, Jacobs hired a team of assistants in Bangalore, India, to do everything for him, from answer his e-mails to read bedtime stories to his son. His most recent book, The Guinea Pig Diaries – My Life as an Experiment, includes that experience along with others, such as living a month of radical honesty. His first book, The Know-It-All: One Man’s Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World, a memoir of the year he spent reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, all 44 million words of it. The book was also a New York Times bestseller.

Jacobs has also written for The New York Times, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, among others. He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, CSPAN, as well as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. For two years, he was an occasional correspondent for NPR’s “Weekend Edition.” Jacobs was also senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, and was a staff writer for MTV’s animated show Celebrity Deathmatch. For more information on A. J. Jacobs, visit www.apbspeakers.com orwww.ajjacobs.com.

Tickets are $15/person and are available for online purchase at www.stlukesumc.com, as well as at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church beginning January 24. Credit cards accepted online; cash and check only in person. The event begins at 7PM; Mr. Jacobs will sign books following his presentation.

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