The Unmerited Grace of God

"I can't tell you how many veterans I've worked with whose fathers were in the military and their fathers father, and they were rigid and authoritarian," he says. "And here we are deeply in touch with the fact that we're hurting broken failures ... And if God's anything like those men in my life, well, he doesn't want to see that." He writes of his own dad who was on a pedestal because he was in General Douglas MacArthur's honor guard.