Life on the White

A story that rivals even today’s most sensational headlines, Life on the White, inspired by real-life events in the early 1900s, takes you on one family’s journey of devotion to a husband and father who just may ruin them all.Once a respected minister of the Gospel, William Nelson's teachings of "Purity" now stray far from Biblical truths. Sentenced to the chain gang of Iredell County, North Carolina, William settles into a life of hard labor while his family struggles with loss and hardship. But prison cannot hold him, and soon he calls on his eldest son to help him make the break. Jacob is only seventeen years old when he's charged with this duty. The consequences of William's escape will prove devastating. On the run, William claims the new identity Bill Richards and soon gathers a following like never before. Isolating themselves on the Colony, their imparted "holy ground" along the White River in Missouri, Bill calls for his family to join him. They will finally have the reunion they've been waiting for—or so they think. Instead, their new life on the White River is full of the sobering realities of a blasphemous doctrine lived out before them and through them. The family and followers of Bill Richards are tested, tormented, and pushed to the brink of physical and spiritual destruction. Life on the White delivers a gut-wrenching illustration of the strength of the human spirit, the beauty of hope, and ultimately, the power of love.