The No-Good Preacher

A scrap of paper stuck out from under the clothing piled on the rickety table.

"Take your clothes and do not return," the note read.

"You are no longer welcome here."



This loveless home was all 15-year-old Charles had ever known.

Now he was homeless.



Charles couldn't remember his mother ever saying she loved him--she'd had only harsh, demeaning words for the boy who had never been good enough for her. So when she kicked him out after his father died, he left without a backward glance.

Somehow he...