{"id":25940,"date":"2015-06-19T01:33:36","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=25940"},"modified":"2015-06-19T01:33:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T05:33:36","slug":"anonymous-tip-details-details-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2015\/06\/anonymous-tip-details-details-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Anonymous Tip: Details, Details, Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

A review series of Anonymous Tip, by Michael Farris<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

p. 84-87<\/em><\/p>\n

Most of this section is rather boring and mundane. After having supper with Gwen at the hospital at 7:00, Peter returns to the Paulsen Building. He uses \u201chis pass key\u201d to get in and goes to the law library \u201clocated two floors below his office.\u201d Notice all the details? We\u2019re told that \u201clawyers aren\u2019t expected to have the law completely memorized, but they are expected to know how to find it,\u201d and we then follow Peter as he looks up various legal statutes and copies them.<\/p>\n

Legal statutes in hand, Peter jogs up two the two flights of stairs to his office and flips on his computer\u2014his 1996 computer must have still had\u00a0a switch\u2014to look at the list of must-do items compiled by Joe and Sally. Farris then tells us, with detail, each thing on Peter\u2019s must-do list (remember that he had asked Joe and Sally to clear his schedule for the week as much as possible).<\/p>\n

A mandatory settlement conference on Friday at two with Judge Goodlate\u2014a real estate fraud trial that Peter and filed thirteen months earlier and was on the August trial ticket. That would take an hour to an hour-and-a-half\u2014but the preparation was all complete. And there was a deposition Monday at three. His client was bien sued for breach of a covenant not to complete. It had been continued twice before and shouldn\u2019t be continued again. Fortunately, he had his line of questions for his client\u2019s former employer all prepared from the prior occasions on which it had been scheduled. An hour\u2019s review would bring him fully up to speed and ready to do battle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see what I mean about all of the extraneous detail?<\/p>\n

Anyway, Farris tells us that Peter was \u201cproud of Joe and Sally\u201d for the excellent work they did clearing his schedule, and that he knew that \u201cmost of the work had fallen on them\u201d rather than just being put off.<\/p>\n

Peter opens his word processor and begins to type the motion\u00a0for an independent psychological evaluation, to be given to Gail the prosecutor by noon the next day.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo can play the psychological game,\u201d Peter said aloud as he finished the third document\u2014the proposed order for Judge Romer to sign. It had taken him less than fifteen minutes, but Sally would need another half-hour in the morning to put in the finishing touches and clean up his mistake.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With this finished, Peter takes the elevator down and heads outside to his car, which we learn \u201cwas parked right in front of the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

As he began the drive out to Liberty Lake in the far eastern edge of the valley to his home, he picked up his car phone and punched the number for his friend Aaron Roberts.<\/p>\n

Aaron was forty and was an elder in Peter\u2019s church. He had been discipling Peter for five years. As brothers in the Lord, they had developed a deep love and appreciation for each other. Aaron was one of the top computer programmers in the Northwest and was on demand as a consultant all over Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana, Occasionally, he would venture into norther California and British Columbia. Aaron\u2019s wife, Lynn, was homeschooling their four children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And there we have it, Farris found a place\u00a0to insert homeschooling into his story!<\/p>\n

And then we have yet another strange conversation.The\u00a0award for the strangest conversation would go to the conversation in which Peter informed Gwen that he could not marry her because she was divorced, you know, right after he met her, but\u00a0this one has its weird moments. It also introduces a new character.<\/p>\n

\u201cAaron, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re home,\u201d Peter said when he answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe too. Doesn\u2019t happen often. What\u2019s up?\u201d Aaron asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a new case today that I would like you to pray about. A mother lost custody of her four-year-old daughter this morning. Probably was mishandled by another lawyer. After the hearing he had the wild notion that this lady would be willing to trade sexual favors so that he could continue on the case for free.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGood grief! Who are they?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know I can\u2019t tell you the names of clients, but I\u2019ll be happy to tell you the name of the lawyer as soon as I\u2019m off this cellular phone,\u201d Peter said. \u201cThis lady has been accused of bruising her child and I think it\u2019s a phony deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat makes you think so?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, for one thing, she\u2019s a nurse at Sacred Heart and obviously knows bruises. And something in my spirit just tells me she\u2019s innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know better than to rely on hunches. Our intuition is not always the Holy Spirit. Have you prayed about all this?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot really. I need to do that. But anyway, this lady is really upset and needs prayer. She\u2019s probably not a believer either. And we can certainly pray along those lines too.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSure Peter, I\u2019ll pray,\u201d Aaron said. \u201cHow\u2019s everything else?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, this week everything else will probably be set aside so I can do her case. There\u2019s a critical hearing on Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t forget our time Friday morning at seven. You aren\u2019t planning on being to busy for that, are you?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo way,\u201d said Peter. \u201cSee ya then.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are so many things to comment here!<\/p>\n

First, Aaron is portrayed as being constantly away from his family, but also as godly mentor and church elder. You better believe that a mother who is constantly away from her young children would catch flack from Farris. Second, Peter says he\u2019ll tell Aaron the lawyer\u2019s name once he\u2019s \u201coff this cellular phone\u201d\u2014is he worried he\u2019s being listened in on? And is handing the Bill\u00a0Walinksi\u2019s\u00a0name off to yet another layperson when Peter\u00a0still hasn\u2019t contacted the ethics board really a good idea?<\/p>\n

Actually, it seems like Peter is overly eager in general to tell people about Bill Walinski sexually harassing Gwen. Sure, he\u2019s not giving Gwen\u2019s name here, but given how long Peter is going to spend on this case the woman\u2019s identity is going to become obvious. I mean he even tells Aaron that the woman is a nurse at Sacred Heart, and that she has been accused of bruising her child! I guess I feel like\u00a0if I ever had need of a lawyer I\u2019d want that lawyer to be a bit more judicious about who they tell what. Peter doesn\u2019t appear to be very scrupulous on that front.<\/p>\n

Now I will say that I am really impressed that Aaron pushes back against Peter\u2019s insistence\u00a0that Gwen is innocent. I wasn\u2019t expecting that, especially given that Aaron is a homeschooling dad\u2014i.e. I assumed he would presume\u00a0a parent accused of abuse to be innocent, barring some sort of egregious evidence otherwise. Of course, Aaron\u2019s solution to Peter\u2019s relying on a hunch is for him to . . . rely on a hunch. After all, he tells him to pray about it rather than, say, to do some more investigation into the case to try to determine whether or not Gwen really is innocent of the charges.<\/p>\n

By the way, I\u2019m getting really annoyed by the insistence that Gwen\u2019s employment as a nurse points to her innocence. Over the past year, I have heard stories of\u00a0a school bus driver and a county social services supervisor who were discovered to be severely abusing their children. Being a nurse does not prevent someone from being an abuser<\/em>. This really isn\u2019t that complicated!<\/p>\n

Finally, note the mention of a\u00a0weekly meeting. While Farris has established Aaron as a mentor to Peter (who is eight\u00a0years his junior), this sounds much like the common evangelical emphasis on having an accountability partner.\u00a0My dad used to meet with another homeschooling dad each week in this fashion\u2014they were accountability partners. The other father would come over early, and they\u2019d sit outside as the sun rose talking about their lives, their joys, and their struggles.<\/p>\n

I predict that Aaron\u2019s role in this story is going to be to keep Peter on the straight and narrow. Joe has also been introduced as a good Christian man, but he is younger than Peter and is junior to him in his firm. When I was a kid, my dad used to say that everyone in an evangelical community should have people they mentor, and people who mentor them. I think that\u2019s what we\u2019re seeing here\u2014Peter can mentor Joe, but he also needs someone to mentor him<\/em>, and Aaron fills that slot. I also predict\u00a0that at some point Gwen will be introduced to Aaron, his so-far unnamed wife, and his four homeschooled children.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll conclude this section by stating that I\u2019m no longer surprised the book is 470 pages long, given that Farris padded it with all of this extraneous\u00a0detail. Next week we will return to Gwen to see how she is faring without Casey.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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