The Pastor's Woman
The dark clouds looming ominously over Detroit, the thirty-four-degree temperature and thirty-fivemile-per-hour winds matched Pearl Lockhart's mood perfectly as she merged her Ford Explorer onto I-75 north on her way to Lakeview Baptist Church.
She left fifteen minutes early because she wanted to have a few words with the pastor. Just who did Wade Kendrick think he was, telling her that she should wear her dresses a little longer? What nerve!
The man had only been installed a few months ago as pastor of the church she grew up in, and now he was suddenly an authority on fashion.
Her sisters had invited Pastor Wade Kendrick to attend their annual family reunion last month and he seemed nice enough—until he made a chauvinistic comment regarding the roles of women in a Christian household, igniting a heated debate between him and Pearl.
He had a lot of nerve criticizing the way she dressed. God didn't care about the clothes people wore to church. He looked at the heart and not the garments. It wasn't as if she were walking into church dressed like a hoochie. Her skirts normally reached just above the knee. For goodness' sake, she was o ... read full excerpt from The Pastor's Woman ebook
