Fooled into Thinking - Sturcke, Henry

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Résumé :
A fifteen-year-old struggles to make sense as the nation is thrown into shock and turmoil by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. His helps: the songs of Bob Dylan and the publications of an apocalyptic sect, the Worldwide Church of God. Over the next few years, he oscillates between these two influences as they help shape his identity. In the process, he struggles with his ambivalent feelings toward his heritage, one-half German immigrant in a world haunted by the ghosts of Auschwitz, the other Southern white at a time when the civil rights movement shattered self-satisfied notions of justice and equality. Music-making, first romances, travel to his father&rsquo...

Biographie:
Henry Sturcke is a writer, photographer, teacher, and an ordained minister. As a journalist, he was a correspondent in Brussels and Washington, D.C., as well as an editor in the New York area.After entering the ministry, he pastored congregations for the Worldwide Church of God in the United States, Canada, Germany and Switzerland for twenty years. Prior to his resignation, he was regional pastor, supervising ministers throughout the German-speaking area. He became credentialed by the Reformed Church in Switzerland and returned to parish ministry, during which time he also served as dean for the Lenzburg area.Since his retirement, he has concentrated on teaching, mentoring and coaching the next generation of ministers and church musicians....

Sommaire:
s homeland (still in the process of rebuilding), and grappling with what it means to live a life of faith intertwine against the background of a society in upheaval, when it was easy to believe that the end of the world was imminent....