Saved by Grace Liberal in Mercy

<p><br>In proud tradition of the Southern storyteller author Mike Cowan shares stories from his life that have molded him into the rarest of creatures a White evangelical Christian and a bleeding-heart liberal Democrat.<br><br>From conversion as a child through spiritual formation as an adult Cowan recounts the struggles he has faced in a church that was founded in defense of the evil of slavery and the consequent vestiges of systemic racism in a church that has increasingly dallied with the chauvinism of Christian nationalism and in a church that is currently in a season of reckoning about congregant sexual abuse by clergy and the disgrace of deception by executive denominational leadership.<br><br>Through it all from the enduring influence of parents and grandparents yellow-dog Democrats all Cowan details his commitment of the next season of his life in support of voting rights public education gun control and the science of climate change.<br><br>The longer we live the more we understand life is a delicate balance of competing forces. In Saved by Grace Liberal in Mercy Cowan navigates one of our greatest cultural divides and lives to celebrate it.</p>