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Title of Book: Life Goes On Click on the title in order to purchase your copy or view product details. By Philip Gulley The Nominating Committee named Judy Iverson to head up the Christian Education Committee…Her first order of business was to order a new curriculum. I knew there would be trouble the moment I saw it. “Very nice,” I said. “It appears well written, thoughtful, and progressive. I’m sure the children will enjoy it. But aren’t you concerned that it doesn’t mention Jesus?” “Not at all,” she said. “Should I be?” Judy grew up in California and met her husband in college while earning a degree in Peace Studies, which enabled her to find employment in the fast-food industry. Excerpt from Life Goes On Life Goes On is the story of a Quaker minister and the ups and downs of life leading his flock. Loosely strung together by a slender plot line, it’s mainly a series of anecdotes about Heather the waitress who goes to the big city, Dale the Bible scholar who has too much interest in God’s wrath and not enough in God’s love, Alice the Sunday school teacher who prays for President Ike or rails against Hitler, depending on what decade she thinks she’s living in on that Sunday, and the Sausage Queen who is a vegetarian and has to be impeached. These and a dozen other stories are hilarious. Life Goes On reminded me somewhat of All Things Bright and Beautiful, in the gentle humor that carries the book alone. I thought of James Herriot’s work while I read the book. Then later, on the back of the book, there was a mention of Herriot, so I must not be the only one who was struck by that. The difference is, unless Gulley made this all up or he’s outlived his parishioners, he might be in big trouble because the humorous look at his congregation, as well as at himself and his wife, could pinch a little. Of course he must have exaggerated because nothing could be this funny and this classic. But when I read the book I recognized a few people I know, cranked up to their highest level of their eccentricity of course, including maybe myself. I read the whole book with a smile on my face and loved the small town familiarity of all the characters and the much abused patience of Pastor Sam. Gulley has written five other books on the life of fictional Harmony Friends Church and I’d love to read them all. |