“This is a James Taylor moment and we are stuck with a piano player who wants to sound like Enya and a southern funk band that, somewhere along the line, fell into thinking Alabama is a sweet place to call home.”

— Donald Miller

Prayer and the Art of Volkswagen Maintenance (2000, Harvest House Publishers)

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American writer 1971

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