Emphasis Preaching Journal
One of my favorite novelists...
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One of my favorite novelists is Jan Karon, author of the Mitford series featuring Father Tim Kavanagh, an Episcopal priest. In her novel In the Company of Others, Father Tim and his wife visit Ireland staying at a bed and breakfast. Bella, the owners' daughter, is filled with bitterness and brokenness in her life. Innkeeper Anna knows that Father Tim's adopted son, Dooley, also came to him with brokenness in his life. Anna questions the priest on how he dealt with the anger that Dooley brought when he first moved in with him.