I4 Life Maps
First Presentation:
Jim Fowler*
Life/Faith Patterns:
Structures of Trust & Loyalty
As an introduction to this perspective I would like to sha~
with you three vignettes， without any particular comraen
upon them at this time. These stories should both give y0I
some clue as to part of my background and also share some
thing of why and how I became interested in studying faith
development.
Vignette number one: My father is a Methodist minister.
We lived in various towns and communities in western North
Carolina as I was growing up. Just after the war， when I w~
about five， we moved into the mountains in the far westen
part of that state， to a little community called Spruce Pin
where feldspar and mica were mined. During the war thet
community had been quite prosperous because of the big]
demand for those products in wartime production. My fathet~
worked not only in Spruce Pine， but also with missi0n~
churches way out in the mountains in places called Bandanna]~
and Kona. t
As a boy of five or six I loved to go with my father on hill
pastoral calls. Whether talking to merchants and lawyers in~
Spruce Pine， or to \"Uncle Pink\" Turbeyfield in the cabin back !
in the cove， Dad had a way of relating that seemed genuine，
*All na~ ar~ ~h~ auth~r g u.l~ a~he~，i~p indirated
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