Open Secrets: A Spiritual Journey Through a Country Church
by Richard Lischer
Category: Biography & Autobiography

The author describes the joys and challenges of taking on his first parish as a young Lutheran pastor in the early 1970s, describing the clash of cultures that occurred when a young, liberal, educated suburbanite came to a rural, farming community in Illinois, a conservative, tightly knit community plagued by poverty and other problems. Reprint.