A megachurch pastor. A father. An obedient, even sycophantic staff. A younger attractive woman. Relationships fouled. A suicide attempt. A story in the news. Survival. Who will narrate this story? How? Will the truth be told? Will the young woman be treated justly? Cynthia Beach creates the whirl and whorl with the elements of a story that mirrors the life of many churches, of many women in those churches, and, sadly, of far too many pastors. A Thousand Wings of Light, like the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Graham Greene, deserves a place in the canon of pastors whose true lives are not told.

Scot McKnight, author with Laura Barringer, A Church called Tov