We all choose the things in our lives that are worth committing to despite their flaws, and the church has been one of those things for me. Some people put energy into the political system in the hopes of making whatever small improvements they can. I put my energy into the church in that same va...
I Love You, Miss Huddleston was a funny book. I enjoyed the writing style and I laughed out loud a few times as I read about Philip Gulley's exaggerated childhood. I think the book would have been better served to have a consistent theme or purpose. It comes across more as a series of disconne...
A little known fact about me is that I like to read spiritual fiction. Philip Gulley wrote the Harmony series which I loved but then he switched to non-fiction. A Place Called Hope is the start of a new fiction series with most of the same characters as the Harmony series. Utterly charming and...
Join the Harmony Friends Meeting once again to see more shenanigans by Dale and Fern. Sam is in desperate need of a break from the day-to-day drama of some members of the Meeting. When a leave is granted after a medical emergency involving Sam's father, the new pastor steps in with amazing eas...
This is one of those books I'd like to give a 3.5It is, as the book jacket indicates, a cross between Jan Karon's "Mitford" series and Garrison Keillor's "Lake Woebegone" tales - a genre I've tentatively decided to call "Nostalic Pastoral Fiction," with "Pastoral" used in its older sense rather t...
I couldn't find the first book of the Harmony Series, so I was advised to just pick this one up and get started, that this series isn't really written to be read in a certain order. This part is true.I loved this. I read it in about two days. It's quite a different writing style than I'm used to,...
Christmas comes to Harmony Friends, and the usual townfolk are all here, Dale and his big ideas for spreading the Gospel to the unwashed masses, Fern with her righteous and holy reasonings for not sharing her pew or straying from any tradition once put forth by her grandmother, the good, the stri...