 Bert Johnston's new novel, Parson Campbell's Breakthrough , will encourage all who labor in the night, unsure of what the dawn may bring. In the early 1950s, Eddie Campbell discovers on his first Sunday as pastor in Pear Valley that his leading elder is an apostle of racism. Mr. Melon wasn't discreet about his bigotry; he spewed it out passionately before the Pear Valley congregation, and a few days later repeated it as his report to his presbytery. Eddie weighs fight or flight, and determines to remain at Pear Valley and make the mellowing of this up-tight elder his primary challenge as pastor. It takes him nine years, and some dark days and nights, but he knows he has achieved his breakthrough when his long-time antagonist makes a significant gesture in support of a burned-out black church. As he prepares to move to another church, Eddie is pleasantly surprised to find himself thinking, I'm going to miss that old codger. Pastor Campbell's Breakthrough is also the story of Eddie's marriage to Myra Pennington, daughter of a wealthy Bluegrass breeder of thoroughbreds. Myra's social norms are not always in mesh with Eddie's but she holds him to his calling when he wavers. And it is the story of his friendship with Jeff Monroe, whose young black church becomes the target of the Ku Klux Klan. Read a chapter from Parson Campbell's Breakthrough. Order your paperback copy of Parson Campbell's Breakthrough from www.amazon.com. Or download it as an e-book for the Amazon Kindle or as a PDF download: Download for the Amazon Kindle Download a PDF |
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