Trespassers Will Be Baptized

Elizabeth Hancock was born to a well-known Southern Baptist minister in Eastern Kentucky, practically a child celebrity in the land where righteousness is Oscar-worthy. She and her sister Meg relished their privileged status, demanding to be baptized in blue jeans and lecturing their peers that "bugs are a Biblical plague, and that means anyone who gets head lice is getting paid back by God for something they did." In TRESPASSERS WILL BE BAPTIZED, Hancock recalls the cultural idiosyncrasies of growing up Southern Baptist -- including the intricacies of Sunday School, foreign missions projects, and revival meetings -- as well as the darker side of the faith that ultimately drove her family out of the denomination. TRESPASSERS, by turns comical and affecting, marks the arrival of a talented new voice.Read less