If you have ever despaired with your efforts to earn your eternal salvation, you might want to read this book. By relating the experiences of a minister of the gospel, his efforts to "save" himself, the book attempts to show that, in the end, only the grace of God will suffice. Moreover, in telling the story, the minister reveals the nature of racism in Little Rock and the effects of the hippie revolution in Fayetteville-a split church in the former and a burned church in the latter. You may find that you resonate with the minister's struggle to find a faith that can endure all the evil that...