She graduated from Conway High School in 1985, Davidson College in 1989, and Virginia Commonwealth University in 1992. Sheri Reynolds was born and raised in rural South Carolina. Sheri Reynolds is an author of contemporary Southern fiction. Although the church's beliefs and practices may seem extreme (sleeping in an open grave, mortifying the flesh with barbed wire), its members are complex and profoundly sympathetic as they wrestle with the contradictions of Fire and Brimstone's theology, the temptations of the outside world, and the frailties of the human heart. The Rapture of Canaan is a book about miracles, and in writing it, Reynolds has performed something of a miracle herself. But concentrating on the Passion of Jesus cannot, in the end, deter Ninah and James from their passion for each other, and the consequences prove both tragic and transforming for the entire community. To distract her from sinful thoughts about her prayer partner James, Ninah puts pecan shells in her shoes and nettles in her bed. Such talk of damnation weighs heavy on the mind of Ninah Huff, the 15-year-old narrator of Sheri Reynolds's second novel, The Rapture of Canaan.
You can go straight to Heaven with all of God's special children if you'll only open your hearts to Jesus. And then he'd say, 'But you don't have to be left behind. He said evil multitudes would come unto us and cut off our limbs, and that we wouldn't die. He said we'd turn on the faucet in the bathroom and find only blood running out. That big bugs would chase us around and sting us with their tails. The tribulation, according to Grandpa Herman, founder of Fire and Brimstone, will be an ugly time: "He said that we'd run out of food. Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Almighty Baptizing Wind spend their days and nights serving the Lord and waiting for the Rapture-that moment just before the Second Coming of Christ when the saved will be lifted bodily to heaven and the damned will be left behind to face the thousand years of tribulation on earth.
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