There is no greater sin for a pastor than to fall for a married member of his congregation. But in this extraordinary colloquial and accessible autobiography, this fall from grace was felt as a blessed relief from two decades of doubt-laden torment, as the pastor struggled with his fundamentalist beliefs. Religion had been a lifeline for a sensitive boy trapped in the cultural desert of a local mining environment. But the lifeline became a two-decade long prison sentence when faith deserted him.

There is still a happy ending. But anyone who has toyed with religion but suffered doubts and temptations on the way, will appreciate this stunningly honest pragmatic account of one man's attempts to make sense of life itself.