{"product_id":"southern-cross-true-stories-of-miracles-visions-voodoo-snake-handling-civil-disobedience-and-my-search-for-existential-answers-a-9781502700858","title":"Southern Cross: True stories of miracles, visions, voodoo, snake handling, civil disobedience, and my search for existential answers a","description":"Are you fed up with the way that Christianity is portrayed in the media? Would you like the world to know that we are more than \u003cb\u003eKim Davis\u003c\/b\u003e and the late \u003cb\u003eFred Phelps?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI spent four years of my life traveling through the South seeking the heart and soul of Christianity in the Bible Belt. Much more than people's politics, I looked for stories of faith and how it had changed lives for the better.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Cross\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e tells real stories of real Christians in our own words. It affirms that even though we do not always believe the same things, we serve the same God -- and that our God is undeniably real.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting this book changed my life forever. It is my witness and my testimony. It was also my greatest test.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book includes interviews with \u003cb\u003eJay Bakker, \u003c\/b\u003e founder of Revolution Church and son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, celebrated West Virginia snake handler \u003cb\u003eCharles Dewey Jr., \u003c\/b\u003e and famed Freedom Rider \u003cb\u003eJerome Smith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book took me through ten states and over 10,000 miles of highway, to rural Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta, prosperous New South suburbs and New Orleans six months after Katrina. I talked to liberals and conservatives, black folks and white folks, Baptists, Pentecostals, and Catholics.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI witnessed protest rallies and Pentecostal tent revivals. I visited megachurches and a pacifist Christian commune. I met a few scary people and many more kind, hospitable ones.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI heard stories of miracles, prophetic dreams, and faith healing. I watched history unfold.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWherever you are in your faith journey, read this book and your understanding of Christianity in the American South will be forever changed.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With a mesmerizing and colorful writing style... her book has a radical message: that we can learn more from each other than from clergy and church dogma.\" - \u003cb\u003eDeborah Beeksma, \u003ci\u003eThe God Discussion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLearn more about me and this project at www.southerncrossbook.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50339431285010,"sku":"9781502700858","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a334453d-24c5-4ff6-9f1f-08164d8a45b6.jpg?v=1728004522","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/southern-cross-true-stories-of-miracles-visions-voodoo-snake-handling-civil-disobedience-and-my-search-for-existential-answers-a-9781502700858","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}