Fictional Pastors

Bruce Barnes, pastor of Irene Steele's Church in the Left Behind series.

Bruce knew about the Lord, preached out of His Word and still missed the Rapture. Sadly, the book takes a turn into fantasy at this point for it has Bruce getting saved and leading many others to Christ who also had rejected Him prior to the Rapture.

 

You probably didn't mean a fictional pastor (in this case, chaplain) that is such a minor character, and I don't even remember his name. But in Moby Dick Ishmael attends a seamen's worship service before going aboard the Pequod and some of the sermon is quoted. But all I remember for sure is that he said, "...I am a greater sinner than ye all..." While this chaplain seemed an upright man, a statement like this can be incompetent-- he doesn't know everyone there to make a statement of such certainty, and it's not likely to be true. On the other hand, I suppose it can be poetic license; and I doubt if anyone who pays atention will disagree that is part of the makeup of sermonizing. Example-- I have heard quite a number of sermons in which the speaker poses the question, "Do you know what the greatest sin is among Christians today?" And then they typically answer their own question. But there have been about as many different answers to that question as times it has been asked... "not praying"; "not giving"; "indifference"; "hypocrisy", et al.

The "poetic license" of speaking in superlatives should be done more cautiously, and any such point involved, if questionable, should be eliminated.

 

Reckon Father Mapple got that sermon wrong. Jonah wasn't a pilot.

 

The Priest in Thorn Birds.

He was involved sexually with one of his parish.

 

Father Tim in the Mitford books. He is an Episcopalian Priest, but was raised Baptist. The books are written by Jan Karon and are based in the NC Mountains.

What I like is that the Gospel is presented in these books. He is very caring and involved w/the lives of his parishioners. The books are clean and have good moral lessons. No profanity or immoral situations but there are a lot of colorful characters....

Dislike that he's an Episopalian priest who drinks alcohol on occassion.