Brian Ulysses Davis, or better known as Bud, is sitting down by himself near the fountain in the mall when a woman sits next to him, a complete stranger wearing cherry red pumps, but somehow, he feels that she is destined to change his life.
The woman is Barbara Ann Bennett, though she prefers to be called Babs. Babs likes shoes and spots these gorgeous pumps, and she knew she just had to buy it. They made her feel wonderful, almost magical. She thinks she will be known as the "girl with the cherry red shoes." After she buys the shoes, she meets Bud and sees him as a future boyfriend.
Their chance meeting-and instant attraction to each other-seems too good to be true. And so it is. Because falling in love with someone is not so easy when you have different religious beliefs.
As Bud and Babs go on their journey, they realize that attraction is not enough for a relationship when they have such big differences, not only in religion, but also in other aspects of their lives-not to mention that their parents do seem to think that dating someone from another religion makes a good foundation for a relationship.
The book bravely tackles questions you need to ask yourself when you are thinking of dating someone from another religion: If you had to boil your faith until only what is important is left, what will your doctrinal statement say? What's really important about your faith? How you dress, when you worship, who you worship, or how you behave? What is absolutely essential to your faith, something so important that if you took it out of your doctrinal statement, you wouldn't have your faith?
Cherry Red Pumps tells the story of Bud and Babs as they overcome their religious differences to find understanding, acceptance, friendship, and of course, love. Chapters are alternatively narrated by Bud and Babs as they tell their side of the book's events.
