Gone to Carolina: Stories from a Coastal Church

Do you delight in stories told by wise, warmhearted authors who take seemingly mundane snippets of life and with their words hold them up to the light like precious gemstones? In stories that are deeply human and deeply divine, they turn life as we know it this way and that, magnifying the good, the right, and the true until "the holy and hidden heart" of things (F. Buechner) shimmer forth.

Gleaned from David A. Shirey's near-decade as a young pastor finding his way in ministry and life at F...