{"product_id":"father-hunger","title":"Father Hunger","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":513,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"A cinematic treatment of worldview: 60 Minutes meets \\\"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.\\\"\"}'\u003eFilled with practical ideas and self-evaluation tools, \u003cem\u003eFather Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e both encourages and challenges men to “embrace the high calling of fatherhood,” becoming the dads that their families and our culture so desperately need them to be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFatherlessness is a “rot that is eating away at the modern soul,” writes Douglas Wilson, and the problem goes far beyond physical absence. “Most of our families are starving for fathers, even if Dad is around, and there’s a huge cost to our children and our society because of it.” \u003cem\u003eFather Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e takes a thoughtful, timely, richly engaging excursion into our cultural chasm of absentee fatherhood. Blending leading-edge research with incisive analysis and real-life examples, Wilson:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTraces a range of societal ills?from poverty and crime to joyless feminism and paternalistic government expansion?to a vacuum of mature masculinity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplains the key differences between asserting paternal authority and reestablishing true spiritual fathering\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUncovers the corporate-fulfillment fallacy and other mistaken assumptions that undermine fatherhood\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExtols the benefits of restoring fruitful fathering, from stronger marriages to greater economic liberty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with practical ideas and self-evaluation tools, \u003cem\u003eFather Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e both encourages and challenges men to “embrace the high calling of fatherhood,” becoming the dads that their families and our culture so desperately need them to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off . . . The kind with people who kill and people who love and people who do both . . . This world is beautiful but badly broken. \\nI love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there’s someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made . . .\\nWelcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Let the pages flick your thumbs.”\"}'\u003eWhat People Are Saying:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\ntd {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-userformat='{\"2\":769,\"3\":{\"1\":0},\"11\":4,\"12\":0}' data-sheets-value='{\"1\":2,\"2\":\"What is this world? What kind of place is it? The round kind. The spinning kind. The moist kind. The inhabited kind. The kind with flamingos (real and artificial). The kind where water in the sky turns into beautifully symmetrical crystal flakes sculpted by artists unable to stop themselves (in both design and quantity). The kind of place with tiny, powerfully jawed mites assigned to the carpets to eat my dead skin as it flakes off . . . The kind with people who kill and people who love and people who do both . . . This world is beautiful but badly broken. \\nI love it as it is, because it is a story, and it isn’t stuck in one place. It is full of conflict and darkness like every good story, a world of surprises and questions to explore. And there’s someone behind it; there are uncomfortable answers to the hows and whys and whats. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Through Him were all things made . . .\\nWelcome to His poem. His play. His novel. Let the pages flick your thumbs.”\"}'\u003e\"Wilson sounds a clarion call among Christian men that is pointedly biblical, urgently relevant, humorously accessible, and practically wise.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Richard D. Phillips, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Masculine Mandate: God's Calling to Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFather Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e illulstrates one of the greatest influences or lack thereof on the identity of a man: a father. Read a book that will strike an invisible chord in the lives of men both lost and found.\" \u003cstrong\u003e-Dr. Eric Mason, pastor of Epiphany Fellowship, Philadelphia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-extra-large\" id=\"descriptionAndDetails\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" class=\"feature\" id=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-cel-widget=\"productDescription_feature_div\" class=\"a-row feature\" data-template-name=\"productDescription\" data-feature-name=\"productDescription\" id=\"productDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small prodDescWidth\" id=\"productDescription\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"300\" aria-live=\"polite\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDouglas Wilson\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior fellow of theology at New Saint Andrews College. Wilson is the author of numerous books on education, theology, and culture, including: \u003cem\u003eThe Case for Classical Christian Education, Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning, Mother Kirk\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eAngels in the Architecture\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as biographies on both Anne Bradstreet and John Knox.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"detail-bullets\"\u003e\u003ca aria-hidden=\"true\" id=\"productDetails\" name=\"productDetails\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eAUTHOR: Douglas Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePUBLISHER: Thomas Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePAGE COUNT: 272 pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBINDING: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSIZE: 5.50x8.50\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 10: 0849964865\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781595554765\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRELEASE DATE: April 30, 2012\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Douglas Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":41201601347699,"sku":"A-151","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0590\/5462\/0787\/files\/douglas-wilson-books-paperback-father-hunger-28066835595312.jpg?v=1763147387","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.canonpress.com\/products\/father-hunger","provider":"Canon B2B","version":"1.0","type":"link"}