This is a novel. The central character Rev. Flowers' cherished dream is to lead her gospel church to respectability in mainstream religious circles. Every day her religious views are evolving, but are they evolving fast enough for issues like homosexuality and same-sex marriage? Would her evangelical congregation follow her? Even before she was born, her grandfather, founder of their church, had taught his flock not to wander too far a field because the secular world was a dangerous place for real God-fearing people like them, and he distrusted mainstream churches. Also has Rev. Flowers...

This is a quirky but smart novel about the Stubbs family. The father Joe Stubbs is content with his small law firm where making lots of money is unimportant to him. A widower and single parent, he raises his two small daughters to be very successful lawyers. Joe is very proud of them. They are a very close-knit African American family. One day Joe, a poor Southern boy in his youth, learns from a friend how much weddings cost nowadays, some exceeding $20,000. "You have two grown daughters, don't you, Joe? Well, get ready. You're probably next," the friend says. This worries Joe immensely, for...

One summer Rev. Viola Flowers, a highly respected pastor of a church in Los Angeles, returns home from a family reunion in the Deep South with an old dog-eared Bible that relatives at the reunion claimed was her late grandfather's Bible. Upon examining it closely she discovers that certain pages had been ripped out. ?What happened years ago so horrendous that our family history had to be torn from the family Bible she wonders with alarm. She's so troubled by the obliterated material that she travels to the South to investigate her family history. And she's not prepared for what she finds...