Books by Michele Andrea Bowen

  • Church Folk tells the hilarious story of a young pastor and his wife who try to hold their congregation together despite its members' foibles.
  • Second Sunday - The 100th year anniversary celebration of church is approaching and the pastor has died. How will the church pull itself back together and find a new pastor in time to prepare for the church centennial, let alone survive one more day?
  • Holy Ghost Corner - Theresa Elaine Hopson after years of searching in all the wrong places for a man, learns to listen to God and what she hears soon brings a smile to her face with the realization that the Holy Ghost has been in her love corner all along.
  • Up at the College - Yvonne is shattered when her husband of 15 years decides to leave her. Disheartened and confused, Yvonne returns to her hometown, meets Curtis and discovera that you can't find true peace and joy without God's help.

Latest Novel

More Church Folk

Picking up in 1986, 23 years after the events detailed in her best-seller Church Folk, Bowen's inspirational novel uses humor, local color, and vividly descriptive, if startling, language to good effect, ably demonstrating once again why she is the queen of African American Christian fiction. An entertaining and timely look at the politics of religion, Bowen's latest sounds a call to action for members of all faiths.