By FāVS News Staff
FāVS News freelance religion reporter Julia Duin is donating her book, “Days of Fire and Glory: The Rise and Fall of a Charismatic Community,” to support the FāVS Local News Day fundraising campaign. Donors who become new members or make a one-time gift of at least $50 on or before April 9 can choose the book as a thank-you gift.
It was the late summer of 1986 when Duin arrived in Houston as the new religion writer for the Houston Chronicle. At the invitation of friends, she visited the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Houston’s blighted East End — and fell in love with its music and charismatic worship. What followed was decades of reporting on the church’s extraordinary rise under the spellbinding priest Graham Pulkingham, and the darker scandal that ultimately brought it down.
Now the journalist who first broke that story tells it in full — a gripping portrait of renewal, reckoning and the complicated faith of a community that believed it was changing the world. The book includes eight pages of photos.
Duin is a Washington state-based freelance religion reporter and former religion editor of The Washington Times. She has worked for newspapers in Oregon, Florida, New Mexico and Texas. This is her fifth book.
To claim this book, become a new FāVS member at $5 or more per month, or make a one-time gift of at least $50 by April 9 — Local News Day. Then visit our book giveaway page to make your selection.
Supplies are limited. First come, first served.
