Summary
Donald Miller is an evangelical Gen X writer whose 2003 book on his days as a campus minister, "Blue Like Jazz," was a surprise hit. Because he lives in Portland, Ore., a city I inhabited for more than eight years, I liked his allusions to neighborhoods I once wandered in as well as churches I knew.
However, his latest, To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father (NavPress, $13.99, 192 pages), seemed out of my league because I have a dad. But the deeper I got into it, the more it applied to anyone who's felt alienated by life and people in general. Which is a lot of us.See the full content of this document
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Fatherless, Gifts of Spirit, Conspiracy
What Mr. Miller, whose father abandoned him, manages to convey is what so many of us feel: perpetually on the outside, alone, never belonging, never in the inner ring. Which is endemic among young men without fathers, and why they will do anything to belong even if it means joining the ...
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