Strange angel
Subtitle: the gospel according to Benny Joe
By: by Ben Davis.
Publisher: Corona Pub.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: San Antonio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Ex-clergy -- United States -- Biography.; Gays -- United States -- Biography.; Pentecostal churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
Description: Raised in the old-fashioned, blood-bought, sin-killing, devil-defeating, Jesus-lifting, Holy Ghost-anointed "clothes-line religion" that pervaded north Texas in the 1950s. Davis had his eye firmly fixed on a preaching career. When, as a 21-year-old Bible-student, he discovered and revealed that he was gay, his familiar world collapsed. He was born again in a most unexpected way--into the world that most of us know. Amazingly, he kept his faith. In Strange Angel, he brings it to bear on the hypocrisy and decay of the fundamentalist sects and, in the process, gives us a hilarious and touching account of growing up Pentecostal. He takes us into a world of beehive hairdos, miraculous healings, oversexed seminarians, and lots of joyful noise--cover.