In the wake of the 2003 General Convention approval of the consecration of Gene Robinson, an openly gay and partnered man, to be a bishop, the Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh took steps to secede from the Episcopal Church. When it became clear that by rewriting and reinterpreting the canons, the Diocese deemed itself entitled to the assets of the Diocese, the Rector and Vestry of Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, took the unprecedented, and as it turned out, successful action of challenging these actions in civil court, by suing the bishop and other officers of the Diocese. The Recent...

In the tiny town of Plainville, Jared Whitehead grew up in church and is now trying to live out his faith like a man. Influenced first by a fiery preacher who crashes in a moral scandal, then by a godly pastor who challenges his long-held convictions, Jared is forced to come to terms with what he really believes about God. But when tragedy strikes his family, his faith in his sovereign God faces the test of his lifetime.