A Mennonite Boy’s Odyssey

Download or read book A Mennonite Boy’s Odyssey written by Bernard (Bernie) D. Bowman and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Mennonite Boy's Odyssey is a story of courage and discovery. Some individuals are fully content to embrace answers provided by their own elders to life's great questions. For others, their elders' way proves untenable. They must forge their own path, awakening through assimilation from alternate sources. A Mennonite Boy's Odyssey traces one such awakening, a life journey of spiritual development from growing up Mennonite in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in the 1950s and 1960s, through decades of reading, thought, and enquiry. The book balances life experience with intellectual and spiritual transformation. This book is an accounting of a Hero's Journey, in the parlance of Joseph Campbell.