In December of 2002, a pastor of a small Baptist church in South Texas began posting essays at a web log he called Real Live Preacher. From the beginning, the only claim he made was that he wanted to write as honestly as he could. Within a few months, thousands of people were coming to read his essays on life, faith, children, tamales, the stars, Jesus, and anything else that was on his mind. The readers of Real Live Preacher began leaving comments and have formed an online community where all questions may be asked and everyone is welcome. bReal Live Preacherb is currently listed in the top ten web logs at Salon.com and is one of the most read web logs in the world.RealLivePreacher.com; is a collection of the best of his writing from the web log and includes a number of essays that were never published online. You will meet Earl the gravedigger, the little blue shoes girl, Elliot, whose birth was called Advent, and George, a deacon whose legacy lives in a rock that is embedded in a wall of the church. They are all real people and make of the world of Real Live Preacher.

RealLivePreacher.com

Religion & Spirituality

Gordon Atkinson

Christian Books & Bibles

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

A continuation in the style of RealLivePreacher.com, Gordon brings us new essays full of raw honesty and insightful grace. Whether it's forays into historical imaginings of biblical scenes, fictional stories, or observations on his life, Gordon brings a piercing sense of reality full of the bittersweetness of the entire human experience.

Turtles All The Way Down: Essays

Consafo/Material Media

Foy is a minister who can no longer make sense of the religious world into which he was born. A strange bus journey to the heart of New Orleans marks his exit from a familiar life and a rebirth into a new reality. But the secular world is a strange and lonely place for Foy. His identity as a clergyman is more deeply embedded in his soul than he thought.
 The same impulse that guides Hester Prynne to shape her future in The Scarlet Letter guides Atkinson's Foy. Foy is determined to chart his own course rather than allowing others to define who he is. A series of flashbacks to his childhood and his time as an unorthodox minister give us clues to the forces that shaped this man and a glimpse at what may be in store for him.

Foy: On the Road to Lost

Material Media

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Books by Gordon Atkinson

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RealLivePreacher.com

Turtles All The Way Down: Essays

Foy: On the Road to Lost