Thelma’s Way, Tennessee, might as well be a foreign mission according to Elder Trust Williams. It’s a town known for a bunch of Mormons who got lost on their way out of Nauvoo, famous for some bad ham that got Parley P. Pratt sick enough to stay a while. Take the local branch: Brother Heck takes up living with the chickens and ‘tars and feathers’ himself with housepaint. There’s Paul the apostate, who won a trip to Rome while buying anti-lice medicine at the local Savin’ Town. There’s Clee...

thought he was returning to civilization. After all, the folks in Thelma’s Way thought the Internet was the extra stitching on the backside of longjohns. But lately, Southdale seems just as zany as the boondocks, just in a different way. And Trust is starting to doubt himself, his family, even the girl by his side. Can Trust find his way through the maze of modern Mormon life-from multilevel marketing to Y2k-and win the heart of the girl of his dreams to boot?In this second volume ...

In book three of Robert Farrell Smith’s critically acclaimed comic trilogy, Trust and Grace head back to Thelma’s Way in the days leading up to their wedding. But things have run amuck in Thelma’s Way. Because it doesn’t appear on any official maps, county planners are constructing a dam that threatens to turn the backwater town into nothing but backwater.Things between Trust and Grace are also awash. No one could foresee the wild connivings of Cindy Cravitz (alias Hope). She’s stu...

At age twenty-five, Tartan Jones has seen little of the world outside of Utah—and nothing by way of an eternal mate. Frustrated, and still single, Tartan makes a desperate bid to change his life and luck by accepting the first transfer that comes along at work.Fate lands him in a small town affectionately nicknamed Longwinded (pop. 558), located deep in the mountains, somewhere in the American Southwest.Longwinded is home to not only some colorful personalities but also an ...

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities for all.While much progress in race relations has been made in recent years-including the election of Barack Obama as President of the United State-it's clear that our journey t...

Thelma’s Way, Tennessee, might as well be a foreign mission according to Elder Trust Williams. It’s a town known for a bunch of Mormons who got lost on their way out of Nauvoo, famous for some bad ham that got Parley P. Pratt sick enough to stay a while. Take the local branch: Brother Heck takes up living with the chickens and ‘tars and feathers’ himself with housepaint. There’s Paul the apostate, who won a trip to Rome while buying anti-lice medicine at the local Savin’ Town. There’s Clee...