When ambitious seminarian and cartoonist Amos Kidneyfern arrives in the Pacific Northwest town of Brushwood to become an interim pastor, he has one mission-revitalize a dying rural church of retirees, farmers, and apathetic teenagers. In the process he hopes to strengthen his and others' faith, grow the church, promote justice, earn kudos from the Pope, and usher in a thousand-year reign of global peace. Frustrations grow, however. when he meets resistance...