CONSIDER USING FICTION AS A MEANS OF WRESTLING WITH REAL ISSUES THAT FACE THE CHURCH.
clergy or lay people can enjoy a good story, good company, and serious consideration of issues that confront us.
 A STAR AND A TEAR
A mystery thriller with a spiritual edge Kindle: $3.99, paperback $14.00
The novel explores the symbiotic relationship between sexuality and spirituality.
A pastor emerges from a period of personal grief to help police track down a serial rapist who has a religious fixation.
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A great idea for a gift to a clergy friend. CLERGY TAILS—TALES $11.99 At its most boring, there is something special about the ministry, and frequently it is a full-time, hair-raising adventure that is anything but boring. This book seeks to provide parabolic stories of the complexity of ministry. This collection of clergy tales tells stories of clergy in both their noble light and their shadows. It is an attempt to build respect for clergy, one story at a time.
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BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
Kindle $6.99, paperback $20
A psychological thriller with a spiritual edge.
A wave of terrorism threatens to paralyze churches and the nation. In this contemporary passion play, the faith of believers confronts the paroxysm of violence and order is disrupted by mounting chaos.
Clergy have a story to tell about faith leadership in times of violence.
Let’s Have Lunch
Conversation, Race, and Community:
Celebrating 20 years of the Presbyterian Inter-Racial Dialogue
Kindle, $3.99, Paperback $10
In 1992 when there was excessive racial tension in the city of Winston-Salem, NC, three clergy, two African American and one Caucasian, sat down for lunch and to discuss what they could do to lessen racial tension in their city. Twenty years later, they celebrated the amazing story of what began that day when they had lunch. They formed the Presbyterian Inter-Racial Dialogue (PIRD), which for twenty years creatively led their congregations in a journey not only of racial reconciliation but also of interfaith dialogue. Their communities were prepared when 9/11 occurred to reach out to their Muslim neighbors.
They included Muslim, Christian, and Jewish neighbors in the first interfaith, interracial Habitat build in the world. Their story, as told in Let’s Have Lunch: Conversation, Race and Community, is a story of what ordinary individuals can accomplish when they agree to work together.
