The Highway and The River: One Girl's Journey out of Evangelicalism and Into Faith

As the daughter of an evangelical pastor in a rural portion of South Dakota, her young life is spent absorbing a rigid belief system that makes no allowance for creative thinking. She learns quickly to "do as she is told," and to model good behavior as a reflection of her father's ministry. She grows as a very dutiful child without realizing that she could be separate, apart from the expectations that had been put on her. She is taught to believe firmly in the "Power of Satan" and that she ...