Chapter 3: Congregational Space Summary

The following Sunday the entire Turnbow family attends Mountain Fellowship, a Christian church founded by a local pastor named Bobby Ogle. Bobby, who as a baby was adopted like Moses, graduated from Dellarobia's high school a few years before she did. A month has passed since Dellarobia nearly committed adultery. Dellarobia is not particularly interested in church in and of itself, but welcomes the opportunity to drop her children in Sunday School and socialize with adults. The Mountain Fellowship Church contains spaces for every type of worshiper, and Dellarobia prefers to watch the service on a video monitor from the Café in Christ, where she usually relishes eating a blueberry muffin. On this particular Sunday Crystal Estep and her ex-friend Brenda (she of the broken fingers), whose family runs the Sunday School, are publicly airing their feud in the...