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Harry C. Marschner
The author was born in 1953 and raised in Northern Kentucky near the banks of the Ohio river. He spent his early childhood living adjacent to a large virgin hardwood forest. His days were often spe...показать большеThe author was born in 1953 and raised in Northern Kentucky near the banks of the Ohio river. He spent his early childhood living adjacent to a large virgin hardwood forest. His days were often spent exploring and marveling at his mysterious neighbor so densely packed with life. Its magnificent oaks, maples, etc., engendered such reverence that his first playmates and he commonly referred to it as “our church.”
His manmade church, however, was the Roman Catholic faith. As a child he loved the mystery and beauty of the Latin mass. It was a real tragedy for him when the switch was made to all-English services. The changes made him question just what was really sacred.
He experienced everything that has come to symbolize the decade of the 1960’s during his teenage years. It was then that he began a more inward search for spirituality, investigating various religions and philosophers. His first great literary love was, not surprisingly, the works of Thoreau. His A Week on the Connecticut and Merrimack Rivers, containing page after page of his descriptions of the virgin hardwood forest in New England, often simply overwhelmed him with warm familiarity.
The war, attitudes about our leaders, even styles in dress and music were so unsettling during this time. Not only did the Catholic Church change, but also his dear forest was cleared and altered beyond any recognition. What was really important became a central issue.
Perhaps that is why he was drawn to study the turbulent times that gave birth to Christianity and the gospels.показать меньше