The Supply at Saint Agatha's

On a stormy night, an aging clergyman too ill to preach sends an unexpected messenger to the prestigious Saint Agatha's Church. What arrives instead is a mysterious, magnetic preacher whose sermon shatters the comfortable assumptions of a privileged congregation. Speaking directly to the sins and struggles of humanity, this stranger in the pulpit calls upon the fashionable worshippers to seek out the marginalized in their city and offer real support. The congregation, moved as they have never been before, must confront what their faith has cost them and what it now demands. Phelps wrote this novel in an era when churches grappled with their own complicity in inequality, and her story remains a piercing examination of how easily devotion becomes performance when it requires nothing from the faithful. The mystery of the preacher and the transformation he sparks make this a quietly revolutionary tale about the distance between believing in Christ and actually following him.