For For readers, young or old, who like the truth told as a short illustrated story; not a book of teaching.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
2 of 5worth a look
For the researcher
1 of 5marginal
Difficulty
0 of 5easy
A very short illustrated parable (1981) about a boy who learns he is loved. Later retold at length as Patched Together.
How it proceeds
Philosophic0 of 5
Scriptural1 of 5
Experiential4 of 5
Sociological1 of 5
Historical0 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A booklet of 24 pages published by Dimension Books in 1981, with illustrations by Jan LaValley and the subtitle How We Learn to Love God with All Our Hearts; Dimension reissued it in 1985 as Parable of William Juan. It is a parable rather than an essay. Manning returned to the story of Willie Juan nearly thirty years later in Patched Together: A Story of My Story (2010), a longer retelling.
