Simple Faith of Mister Rogers

Spiritual Insights from the World's Most Beloved Neighbor

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Amy Hollingsworth: Simple Faith of Mister Rogers (2007, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas)

224 pages

English language

Published Feb. 16, 2007 by Nelson Incorporated, Thomas.

ISBN:
978-1-4185-7134-4
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Much better than you'd expect on a religious view of a childhood hero.

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A fantastic tale of Mister Rogers. I figured it would probably be a fluff piece about how we should be kind to each other and not preach religion. I was glad to learn I was wrong. Amy Hollingsworth is a preacher's wife, raised Catholic, but her husband is a Protestant (Pentacostal I think but I haven't been able to confirm that) pastor.

Mister Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister. His parents assumed he'd go to seminary, so he did, but was called by God to children's television and not the pulpit. He tried to the get the American Presbyterian Church to ordain him a pastor without a parish and assign him to children's television, possibly producing content for the denomination's Sunday Schools, but they did not. Eventually he did finish his studies whilst working on Mister Rogers Neighborhood, but he never did pastor a congregation.

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