RealLivePreacher.com - Softcover

Gordon Atkinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802828108 ISBN 13: 9780802828101

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2013

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Gordon Atkinson is the former pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in San Antonio, Texas and creative director of a web design and hosting company. Besides filling cyberspace with is blogs, his writing have appeared in England's Tank Magazine. Christian Century, The Higher Calling and in the compendium Best Christian Writings 2004.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802828108
• ISBN 13: 9780802828101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165