Good condition - older book so there is some slight yellowing of the pages due to age Originally $15.95📖 It is the end of a bitterly cold winter. A crowd of people, warmed both by the sudden thaw and by the event they have come to witness, file into a cathedral. They are here to celebrate the consecration of a new bishop—a good man, they think, strict in doctrine, but capable of compassion. A man of tradition, not of reform. A "company man." His name is David Campbell. And sitting in the last pew of the cathedral is a clean-shaven man of ordinary build, with gentle hazel eyes. His name is Joshua. Within twenty-four hours of this, his first encounter with the man who will become his mentor, David Campbell will propose the most far-reaching reforms in a millennium... reforms to destroy sectarian barriers.... reforms to change the direction of the church...reforms to return Christianity to its founder's simple message. With Joshua by his side, David Campbell - The Shep-herd-preaches to Catholics, Protestants, Mos-lems, and Jews the universal truth of God's love. It is a message that changes everyone it touches: • Charles Mayberry, the chancellor of the dio-cese, who chooses to betray Campbell...or is he merely a necessity for the fulfillment of Gods plan? • Father Edmund Marcel, who precipitates a crisis in the church by the simple, and fatal, expedient of falling in love. • Lutheran bishop Donald Marxhausen, who meets Campbell first as an enemy, then as a fervent supporter, and finally as something even rarer: a friend Campbell's attempt to fulfill the dream of Jesus —one flock, one shepherd-hurtles to a surprising conclusion. Here is a profoundly moving tale of faith and redemption whose message is needed now more than ever. No one who reads The Shepherd will ever forget it.