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I was recently part of this great bookclub discussion. Very interesting and well written book about the conversion process for individuals and its effects on family systems.<\/p>\n

Conversions: Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America with Craig Harline<\/a><\/p>\n

Craig Harline, a native of California, is a cultural historian and a\u00a0 professor of history at BYU<\/a>. He teaches courses on the Reformation, the history of civilization, film, and Christianity.\u00a0 He has also taught seminars on miracles and toleration and persecution.<\/p>\n

Book Description from\u00a0 www.amazon.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the Reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive situations today.<\/p>\n

Craig Harline begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus, the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism in 1654 and ran away from home, causing his family to disown him. In the companion story, Michael Sunbloom, a young American, leaves his family\u2019s religion in 1973 to convert to Mormonism<\/a>, similarly upsetting his distraught parents. The modern twist to Michael\u2019s story is his realization that he is gay, causing him to leave his new church, and upsetting his parents again\u2014but this time the family reconciles.<\/p>\n

Recounting these stories in short, alternating chapters, Harline underscores the parallel aspects of the two far-flung families. Despite different outcomes and forms, their situations involve nearly identical dynamics and heart-wrenching choices. Through the author\u2019s deeply informed imagination, the experiences of a seventeenth-century European family are transformed into immediately recognizable terms.<\/p>\n

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