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Gilead is an unshowy but potently contemplative book. The apparently exemplary Ames is plagued by the feeling that he has failed to live up to his calling. Robinson, who is a devout Congregationalist, describes the struggle with compassion and knowingness, reflecting what she says is a tendency to become deeply absorbed in the lives of her characters. In considering when she will write her third novel, she says, "I hope it's not another 23 years." But even if it is, she's not explaining herself to anyone. --By Michele Orecklin
...foundling home by a mother “panic-stricken and ungovernable in her haste to have done” with her newborn baby, and a father seemingly incapacitated by love and alcohol, Paula eventually found her way into the care of Reverend Elwood Corning, a loving and heroic Congregationalist minister in upstate New York. At the age of six, Paula’s parents resurfaced, sending for her from Hollywood, where her father, Paul Fox, was a small-time screenwriter and big-time partier. After only a few days, Paula was again uprooted and sent to live with...
Therapist Treadway thinks open dialogue is smart and necessary but warns parents to be careful not to inadvertently undermine the feelings of the other parents involved. Miami parents Warren Goldstein, a history professor, and the Rev. Donna Schaper, a Congregationalist minister, were children of the '60s and social activists. That didn't mean they got good vibes last year when it became clear that their oldest son Isaac, now 18, was having sex with his girlfriend. Goldstein and Schaper each phoned the young woman's parents to discuss the couple. Says Donna: "Her mother said, 'I know they're doing...
...ready to try human cells, but first he asked himself searching questions that endocrinologist James Prihoda, his college roommate, sees as a sign of his deep "respect for life and strong feeling that there is a purpose to it." Is this research ethical? Is it moral? Thomson, a nonpracticing Congregationalist who is married to a fellow scientist and is the father of two young children, wasn't sure. He read every study he could get his hands on and consulted, among others, University of Wisconsin bioethicists R. Alta Charo and Norman Fost. Since the embryos he planned to use were...
Melinda is Catholic, goes to church and wants to raise Jennifer that way. "But she offered me a deal," Gates says. "If I start going to church--my family was Congregationalist--then Jennifer could be raised in whatever religion I choose." Gates admits that he is tempted, because he would prefer she have a religion that "has less theology and all" than Catholicism, but he has not yet taken up the offer. "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient," he explains. "There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning...