Pulpit Confessions by Peron F Long
By Sharel Gordon-Love • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: Book Review •
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Author Peron F. Long penned a novel filled with twists and turns, family drama and secrets, and ultimately a reckoning day that changed the lives of everyone involved.
Ever since the age of 12 when Raymond Miller, Jr. picked up the mic to mimic his father’s preaching, his mother, Ruth, groomed him to become a preacher. She encouraged and controlled his life, making sure that beginning with the fame, growing up as a child in Montgomery, would continue to do so and thrive like never before when they moved to Fort Mill.
Once his father, Bishop Raymond Miller, Sr. started having “senior moments,” Raymond Jr. became the Bishop of God’s Deliverance Ministries with the help of Mother Ruth. She strategically planned every thing that went on at GDM, including Bishop Raymond’s marriage, her son Anthony’s call to the ministry, and a host of other things that would not normally fall to the First Lady of the ministry.
In the meantime, Bishop Miller, Jr. continued to live his adulterous and fornicating lifestyle, destroying lives along the way, while his mother plotted ways to cover for his antics along with those of her own. But now Bishop Miller, Jr.’s wife, Katherine, of over 20 years, has grown tired of the loveless marriage she shared with him and began searching for ways to fill her void. Both of their daughters were grown, and Katherine’s husband was always gone (even on their wedding anniversary!) doing what he does best, so why not find fulfillment elsewhere?
From the beginning of Pulpit Confessions, I thought I had the story pegged and what the outcome would be, but the prologue threw me off and the surprising shock a little past midway of the book had me reeling! Bishop Miller, Jr. had plenty of skeletons in his closet that turned his family upside down, sideways and inside out before the true climax of the story. Hidden secrets that changed lives forever were revealed and addressed in a big way, even those secrets Bishop Miller, Sr. kept in his closet.
I really enjoyed this book and would like to have given it a `5,’ but the grammar and errors prevented that. The story has a very strong plot line, and I am looking forward to reading more from Author Long. I recommend Pulpit Confessions to those who love to read storylines with lots of drama, secrets, reckoning and ultimately healing.
Reviewed by Sharel E. Gordon-Love
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Sharel Gordon-Love is a single mother of three grown sons and one adoptive daughter, and the author of When He Calls, a Christian Fiction novel. An avid reader since the age of five, Sharel has a passion for the written word and what can be done with it. Sharel finds a way to share the written word through children and women's ministries; she is a licensed Evangelist Missionary in the Church of God in Christ.
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