His offices in the ten-story church building are always crowded with supplicants of every kind seeking favors. Like an old mafia Don, he dispenses the influence given him by the millions of his congregation. His weekly televised Sunday Sermon Service is a bully-pulpit of the first magnitude. He becomes the powerful man the southern part of the country.
It began with a simple concept, divinity of human consciousness that once voiced, grew into a world-wide religion. The nation's yuppie population, jaded and totally invested in a material world finds new hope. One after another, Rawlins' male offspring takes control of the global internet church, until the last one in the long line rejects it, until forced to embrace it to save his own life.
