Podcast: They Can Eat Your Body

Oct 162011

Daniel was accused of a crime not because of what he’d done- he was blameless- but because of who he was. That happens sometimes. Today we explore how to be the best we can be when we’re not treated fairly.

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Hello!

I'm a writer and pastor, and my new book is called Uncle Bush's Live Funeral. I also cowrote the film Get Low and am a Lutheran pastor at Amazing Grace Lutheran Church outside Atlanta.

This book tells the incredible true story of Felix "Bush" Breazeale, a feared hermit who attracted ten thousand strangers to the funeral he held while still alive in 1938. It is the true story that inspired my 2010 film Get Low.

I had begun researching Get Low as an outsider, a New Yorker married into a skeptical East Tennessee family. By the time Get Low arrived in theaters ten years later, I had earned their trust. They opened doors that allowed me to finally learn why Bush had his funeral while he was still alive, and why so many people came. I found the moving story of a man trapped by his culture and past, desperate to rewrite his life's story before it was too late. Uncle Bush's Live Funeral shows that any outcast can find acceptance, and any label can be overcome, available now by clicking on the picture above.