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The Candleberry Tales is a collection of humorous and often fanciful modern-day parables told by a group of pastors heading to a Georgia mountain retreat center. In the tales readers will meet a mouse who is a theologian, a sect that communicates with outsiders by quoting the King James Bible, a brave young girl who challenges her town's leaders, and other memorable characters. These tales illustrate important themes from the Gospels and will challenge various aspects of the modern practice of Christianity using humor instead of polemical critiques. The men, women, children, and mice in The Candleberry Tales are family members, employees, clergy, churchgoers, and academics--they engage their faith not in isolation but among the people they encounter. Likewise, Gospel parables are never about ""lone rangers."" They are about messy encounters between people. And in the case of The Candleberry Tales, encounters can be very messy, indeed. Whether readers are new to faith, a longtime pilgrim, or have become wholly disengaged, this book can offer a fresh look at the Gospels and make audiences laugh at the same time.

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Karl D. Lehman is a graduate of the University of Maryland and Wesley Theological Seminary. For over twenty-five years he served as the CEO of Childkind, a nonprofit agency serving children with medical and developmental disabilities. Lehman received several awards for his advocacy for children with disabilities and their families. He also worked for an ecumenical publisher, for a US presidential campaign, and for banks in Washington, DC. Lehman resides in Georgia with his beloved wife and son. Justo L. Gonzalez, a United Methodist minister born in Cuba, is a retired member of the Rio Grande Conference of the United Methodist Church. After his basic college and seminary education in Cuba, he studied at Yale University, where he obtained three degrees: S.T.M. (1958), M.A. (1960) and Ph.D. (1961). In 1961 he joined the faculty of the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, teaching historical theology, and in 1969 he moved to Atlanta, where he now resides, in order to teach at Candler School of Theology (Emory University). Since 1977 he has been engaged in two main occupations: writing and promoting the theological education of Latinas and Latinos. Among his numerous writings in the field of Church History are his three-volume 'A History of Christian Thought', and the two volume set on 'The Story of Christianity'. These and others of his books have been published not only in English and Spanish, but translated as well into Portuguese, German, Russian, Korean and Chinese.

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