The Tumult and the Joy by Gordons

Hardcover with light shelfwear to edges and boards. DJ protected with mylar and not clipped. Pages tight and clean. Library discard with usual marks and attachments. Pocket removed. 374 pages. HardCover Binding. Year: 1971. ISBN: 0. Here the Gordons probe the trials and challenges a minister and his congregation must face as events force their church into a harsh confrontation with a new and vital commitment to the community. Around one devout man stand a number of people whose futures, inadvertently, depend on him. There is Peggy, a beautiful teenage girl, whose problems drive her from her parent's home; Sam Johnson, a black minister in need of a meeting place when his own church burns down; Walter, a young man who has ""lost Jesus"" and experiences a compulsion to kill; and the pastor's daughter, Sue, who rebels against the Establishment.