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Stivender's Irish Catholic mother prayed for him to become a priest, but his Protestant Navy father warned him to never get a job where you have to wear a dress to work. Stivender compromised--he taught religion in Catholic high school and found his true calling as a jongleur, telling stories, sometimes with music and often from the Bible. The Robin Williams of storytelling. . . . he works the room.--National Storytelling Festival.

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Publishers Weekly Review

A professional jongleur (storyteller), Stivender offers rich material here in anecdotes based on growing up Catholic in Philadelphia in the 1950s. The first-born of an Irish Catholic mother and a Lutheran father, he missed the ``call'' to priestly vocation that his parochial school teachers envisioned for their prize pupil. Instead, his inquisitive imagination wrestled merrily with the pseudo-military nature of his Catholic education; with what he calls the game of ``doctrinal tennis'' played in the classroom by teacher and students; and with his all-too-literal interpretations of pious conventions, such as accommodating one's guardian angel. Stivender's storytelling emanates from a warm familial setting and resonates with affectionate humor while he takes swipes at the rites of passage of a more innocent time. These tales of Catholic culture amuse while they recall a history shared by many. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved