Terry Mulcahy's Reviews > One More Sunday

What an amazing book. I've read so much of MacDonald's work, from the whole Travis McGee series, to crime mysteries and thrillers, to fantasy and science fiction. But I never heard about this one. Yes, there is a murder to solve, and other crimes, but the book is the best indictment of those slick televangelists I've ever seen. It's disguised as fiction, but John D. held nothing back about those pleas for money, about the idea that tithing and giving money to an earthly organization would guarantee someone a place in heaven. About the fleecing of those who could least afford it, those poor or with heavy medical debt, and they just keep asking for more money, and more, and more, and it doesn't stop. And the churches are ornate, and the computers keep track of who donated and who didn't and how much money came in, to pay for the jets and the cars, and the luxuries and the travel. And, of course, the sexcapades, and graft and lies and half-truths and the preachers who may have believed at one time, but sinned greater than their combined congregations. And, who weren't above murder to cover their lust and protect their empire. Hallelujah! Praise God and Jesus, but don't forget to send lots of money.