Lord of the Sabbath

About the Book

LORD OF THE SABBATH is a novel about the Reverend Adam Christopher who tries to live by the simple and godly command to ''Love your neighbor''. But his adultery reveals surprising implications that complicate his marriage and ministry. Adam Christopher's story offers a provocative statement about the nature of the divine in human sexuality.

LORD OF THE SABBATH explores the little verse that many learned in Sunday School: God is love...a love which calls us to life as human beings created in the image of the Divine Lover. But what happens when this divine calling collides with the institutions of Church and society? Adam Christopher's adultery raises the age old question: What if love is more fundamental than morality? If God is love then whenever and wherever love erupts is God present? We may not be able to love with the perfection of angels but is not the fact that we can love at all a miracle?

LORD OF THE SABBATH illuminates this miracle of love which continues to amaze and disturb us with it eruption. The author has taken some of the great love stories of the Bible -- not the least of which is God's continuing love affair with the world -- and placed them in a contemporary setting. These timeless stories represent the varied ways in which we experience love today. Love continues to occur all around us every day with its remarkable capacity to rise in and through the ashes of our human failings and become the vehicle for spiritual insight.

LORD OF THE SABBATH offers not only a good read but food for thought.

About the Author

''This may be the first time that we have met, so let me introduce myself.

''I am a writer who happens to be a clergy person. In LORD OF THE SABBATH I want to reach those who, although spirituality sensitive, are probably outside church circles or at least, at the fringes of institutional religion. My literary agent and friend, Roland Tapp, suggested that I write this novel because all of my previous books were published by religious publishing houses and probably read by people who felt comfortable in traditional churches. Writing a novel sounded like a tall order to me and when I asked him how do you write a novel his instructions were short and to the point. ''You mix three of four characters together, add a little sex for spice and let them stew for two or three hundred pages.'' Dinner is now ready and I hope you will accept my invitation to the feast.

''For the record, I graduated from Macalester College and McCormick Theological Seminary, hold a Doctor of Science of Theology degree from San Francisco Theological Seminary and was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard University. As a Presbyterian minister my careers have been in pastoral ministry, college and seminary teaching, and television as a talk show host and weatherman. My wife and I have raised three incredible children who have given us nine beautiful grandchildren who we absolutely adore.

''Now that we have met, let's talk about LORD OF THE SABBATH. I look forward to hearing from you.''