Raised in the Primitive Baptist Church, teenage Beulah Buchanan marries the much older deacon Ralph Rainey to escape from her oppressive parents, thus jumping from the frying pan into the fire.Over th
A serious attempt to free Jesus from the confining garments of both New Testament studies and orthodox Christianity, to discover a better understanding of Jesus.
Why has the church over the centuries exhibited a hostile attitude toward sex? Sullivan contends that early Christian theologians failed to understand the mythic character of the Adam and Eve as well
In 1964 Clearwater, Mississippi, Jesus and Simon Peter return as Jewish women and create an uproar in the community and in the poor African-American congregation of the Sweet Pilgrim Baptist Church. R
