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The Shellman Story: Hanging the Preacher

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While "The Shellman story" epitomizes the social conflicts and gut-wrenching agony of the civil rights crisis in churches, families, communities, schools, and political institutions, it provides a framework for Buchanan to exercise his unusual gift for bringing characters alive until you can almost touch them. With a deep background in New Testament Greek, ancient Greek philosophy, and Greek mythology, he traces the profound themes of the unending conflict between good and evil, "gods" and men, and the eschatological resolution at the culmination of human history.

With biting humor, clear-headed insight, and a delightful gift of "story-telling", Buchanan keeps the reader engaged until he can hardly put the book down. Every thoughtful reader will find that he is entertained, informed, and challenged by this book and a dozen others which have come from the mind of this truly magnificent "teller of Southern Tales" and brilliant theologian-philosopher of our troubled times!