COLLEGE RUINED OUR DAUGHTER

by Wesley Shrader ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 23, 1969

Probably the best evidence that God Is Not Dead are some of the younger men of the cloth like Wesley Shrader who is not only irrepressibly alive but with it. This is a series of his epistolary exchanges with various parents on ""how I read the young people of today"" from Kingston, a college where he presides as Chaplain although threatened from time to time (ibid: ""Dear Major Rivers: Dean Blower has forwarded to me your letter demanding that I be fired""). Intervening in various situations, the Chaplain shows that he has both feet firmly on the ground on either side of that gap he is straddling: namely re Hope Rivers and her conversion to the Maharishi and later marriage to a Negro; or the local Joe Namath's disenchantment with football; or Mel whose mother wants to move to Kingston to be near him and keep him from an ""unclean"" life; etc., etc. As the Chaplain says, ""We are living in a new day; it may not be a better day, but it is a new one"" and he's in there against the Pope's Encyclical on birth control, ROTC, fraternities, while defending long hair or the ""open policy"" in the dorms or homosexuality. Anyway you'll find his letters to various alarmed parents most disarming--funny and serious and relevant.

Pub Date: April 23, 1969

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION