The Fiddle and The Flame
by Mary Walker Sparks
$14.99 paperback, 160 pages
Published: June, 2007
ISBN 978-1-59715-083-5

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Either half of the life of James O’Kelly would make a fascinating story. The Fiddle and the Flame by Mary Walker Sparks expertly blends the two halves into a well-constructed narrative about a youthful fighter and fiddler who ends up consumed with the flame of the Holy Spirit. By all accounts, O’Kelly achieved greatness in any number of pursuits—not all of them noble—and by the end of his life he was a well-known and well-traveled itinerant preacher who trod paths that led to the birth of a new nation and a new religious movement. Forever passionate and determined, O’Kelly as biographical subject deserves the rich treatment that Sparks delivers in this always interesting volume.