This is only open to those with a USA mailing address. There is absolutely no cost to enter.
This is your chance to receive a new copy of The Uncomfortable Confessions of a Preacher’s Kid: A memoir by Ronna Russell. This is the second release of her book, from 2023.
Ronna had a childhood filled with fear of her father’s quick temper, being lost, and being left behind in the rapture. Ronna is a survivor and her story should be heard. Will you listen?
Ronna, one of Donald Fisher’s three daughters, shares her painful and lonely upbringing in the United Pentecostal Church. She longed to belong and fit in somewhere and not feel suffocated by her father’s rules and control. Some people envy PKs, thinking they have life great, yet many do not and reading this memoir will cause you to reconsider such a thought.
The late Donald Fisher held license for many years in the United Pentecostal Church. He worked in the Youth and Foreign Missions Divisions and was the founder/editor of Word Aflame Publications. He was a vice-president of the Jackson College of Ministries and a president of Conqueror’s Bible College. Don started their national Bible quizzing program. His influence on the United Pentecostal Church cannot be denied, yet at the same time his influence on his children was something quite different, so much so that Ronna has never missed him since his passing in 1995.
This book is more than just her experiences being brought up in the UPC. It is about how she struggled and overcame many years of loneliness and obstacles in her life.
Some might also want to read Heretics and Politics: Theology, Power, and Perception in the Last Days of CBC by Thomas Fudge. Ronna was interviewed for it and it covers, in part, about her father. Other books by Fudge that are United Pentecostal Church related are Christianity without the Cross: A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism & C.H. Yadon: and the Vanishing Theological Past in Oneness Pentecostalism.
This giveaway is a drawing. To enter, just leave a comment to show you wish to be included. The drawing will close on September 18, 2024 at 6pm (eastern time), after which I will draw a winner.
Be sure to check back to see if you have won as in the past some people have not responded after winning and so a new winner had to be drawn. You will then need to email me your mailing address if I do not already have it, so be sure to watch your email and check the spam folder. If I know your Facebook profile, I will message you there.
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Watch for our next post on October 16, when we’ll be offering a new copy of Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians by Lucy Peppiatt.
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The winner is…Amanda Price. Congrats!
Don’t forget to watch for our next giveaway in October for Women and Worship at Corinth: Paul’s Rhetorical Arguments in 1 Corinthians by Lucy Peppiatt.