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Two ancient adversaries meet for a cup of coffee in a little pie shop outside of Tupelo, Mississippi. The young woman who serves them feels sure there’s something unusual about these strangers, but even after a person living on the streets recognizes the Old Man as the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, even after He knows things that no one could possibly know, she can’t make herself believe . . . . What would you do if you went for a cup of coffee and a slice of pie and were drawn into a conversation between God and Satan? If you could ask the Almighty any question, what would you...

Growing up in rural Mississippi just a couple of miles from the Mississippi River, white eight-year-old boy Buddy spends his summers playing in the woods behind his neighborhood. The day Buddy spots a wounded deer in those woods, he is wholly unprepared for a chance meeting with a stranger who will shape the course of his life. Jake - an older African-American fisherman, ex-convict, former tent preacher - and Buddy form an unlikely bond that transcends age and race.

In this sequel to the best-selling tale of a unique friendship, Jabbok, Buddy Hinton tells the story of his continuing education, in different classrooms, with three new teachers: JoJo McCain, John Cahill, and especially and most wonderfully, Beulah Grace Bayer. Now twenty-five years old, Buddy Hinton is a newly ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. While seminary prepared him for ministry in small congregations in Mississippi, it is his experiences with the people he encounters along his journey, in a little village in the mountains of Honduras, at a summer camp for people with ...

I think my friend Jake was probably right: “In the end, our stories is all we is.” This is my story continuing, filled with lessons I’ve learned, truth I hold as precious, and the faith I have sometimes struggled to keep. The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, and is now retired. He was ordained a priest in 1982 and a bishop in 2008. Kee grew up in Vicksburg, Mississippi; his wife, Tina, grew up in Leland in the Mississippi Delta. They now live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two adult children, McKee and Mary Nell. He is the ...