God, the Devil & Lemon Icebox Pie

Two ancient adversaries meet for a cup of coffee in a little pie shop outside of Tupelo, Mississippi. The young woman who serves them feels sure there’s something unusual about these strangers, but even after a person living on the streets recognizes the Old Man as the Lord God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, even after He knows things that no one could possibly know, she can’t make herself believe . . . .

What would you do if you went for a cup of coffee and a slice of pie and were drawn into a conversation between God and Satan?  If you could ask the Almighty any question, what would you say?


The Rt. Rev. John McKee Sloan served as a priest in the Episcopal Church in Mississippi and Alabama for twenty-seven years before being elected a bishop in 2008, serving as the 11th Bishop of Alabama until he retired at the end of 2020. He and his wife, Tina, live in Birmingham, Alabama, and have two children, McKee and Mary Nell, who died in 2023. He is the author of three other books: Jabbok, Beulah, and Prodigal.