ASIN: B01BFMSXQ4
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 246
Lynn Cummings, a professor and women’s rights activist, finds herself falling for a Baptist preacher, of all people. She marvels at the celibate Pastor Stewart’s boyish zeal as he attemps to build a Christian Academy at the height of the economic recession. Stewart is enchanted by Lynn's beauty and boundless intellect as she rallies behind a bill of legislation. Their other-worldliness colors their romance, but where their different worlds meet, proves to be their crucible.Lynn thought First Baptist church was your ordinary deep south church – pews overrun with women who labor the ministries, sleepy male elders in chancel seats – until she witnesses the unthinkable: a female guest speaker speaks from a lectern; women are not allowed at First Baptist’s pulpit. In Stewart’s shame, he hastens efforts to change the rule as old as the church itself, dating back to Reconstruction. The ...
