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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches > Other Protestant & Nonconformist Churches > General
Finding Father is a collection of stories about Mennonite fathers
by their daughters. Written by well-known and first-time writers,
these stories illuminate the often close and sometimes troubling
relationships that exist between one of humanity's most precious
bonds. From battles over relationships and sexuality, to debates
over chores and church, these stories also hold the shared
intimacies of driving side by side with dad, laughing, and headed
down the road.
In 2009, the Good News Club came to the public elementary school
where journalist Katherine Stewart sent her children. The Club,
which is sponsored by the Child Evangelism Fellowship, bills itself
as an after-school program of Bible study. But Stewart soon
discovered that the Club's real mission is to convert children to
fundamentalist Christianity and encourage them to proselytize to
their unchurched peers, all the while promoting the natural but
false impression among the children that its activities are
endorsed by the school. Astonished to discover that the U.S.
Supreme Court has deemed this--and other forms of religious
activity in public schools--legal, Stewart set off on an
investigative journey to dozens of cities and towns across the
nation to document the impact. In this book she demonstrates that
there is more religion in America's public schools today than there
has been for the past 100 years. The movement driving this agenda
is stealthy. It is aggressive. It has our children in its sights.
And its ultimate aim is to destroy the system of public education
as we know it.
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