The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene. The title is an allusion to the doxology often recited at the end of the Lord's Prayer: "For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, forever and ever, amen." It was initially published in the United States under the title The Labyrinthine Ways. Greene's novel tells the story of a renegade Roman Catholic 'whisky priest' (a term coined by Greene) living in the Mexican state of Tabasco in the 1930s, a time when the Mexican government was attempting to
The Work and the Glory (film) that prefix ("Pillar of Light: The Work and the Glory"), but the prefix does not appear anywhere in the film itself. However, "Pillar of Light: The Work and the Glory" was the working title for the film.. The film was followed by the sequels "The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005)" and "The Work and the Glory: A House Divided (2006)". Unless otherwise noted, the information below is from the DVD release of the film. The Steed family moves from their Vermont settlement to Upstate New York to set up a farm. Benjamin, the father, hires two local boys,