Hometown Tales

Philip Gulley always tells a good story, and these short stories are great examples of his talent as a storyteller. Sprinkled with humor, they still have a moral basis. In these tales, you will likely meet people like those you know personally. There is some good advice to be had in these pages: all you have to do is slow down, sit a spell, and enjoy some home town tales.

This is a lovely little book, in which Gulley gives stories/anecdotes from his own life that illustrate the nine fruits of the Spirit listed in Galatians. (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control). The stories are brief, and much in the style of his later Harmony books. It's a quick and yet reflective read.

I’m glad I read Porch Talk first; Gulley has grown less sure of himself as he has aged and I like that in essays. Still, though Gulley comes across as a little more preachy here, he isn’t so preachy as to curdle your milk.

Nice stories but a bit too churchy for my taste.

Recollections of kindness, peace and joy.

From Amazon.com:
Master storyteller Philip Gulley envelops readers in an almost forgotten world of plainspoken and honest small-town values, evoking a simpler time when people knew each other by name, folks looked out for their neighbors, and people were willing to do what was right—no matter the cost.
When Philip Gulley began writing newsletter essays for the twelve members of his Quaker meeting in Indiana, he had no idea one of them would find its way to radio commentator Paul Harvey Jr. and be read on the air to 24 million people. Fourteen books later, with more than a million books in print, Gulley still entertains as well as inspires from his small-town front porch.

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