No Good Deed by Jack N Lawson
What would lead ordained minister and Vietnam veteran, Kyle Weston, to commit suicide by hanging himself in the church-and wearing a T-shirt proclaiming 'Death from Above?' Why would he send letters to both his best friend, Rev. Jon Braddock, and his 'enemies' prior to his death, arranging for all of them to find his body at the same time?It is these questions and more that Jon seeks to answer in the wake of his loss. And the journey is more unsettling than he could have imagined. No Good Deed examines America's two great conflicting passions: war and religion, and their interaction over four decades.
Lawson, Jack N.: - Jack Lawson grew up in North Carolina. As an ordained minister, he worked as a prison chaplain in North Carolina and Ohio. He later served as a parish minister in the US and the United Kingdom. After earning a PhD in Hebrew Bible, he taught both ministerial candidates and lay people in the English counties of Kent and Norfolk. After leaving parish ministry in 1997, Jack worked for The Rural Community Council in Kent, focusing on rural economic regeneration and managing a European Social Fund grant between Kent and Nord-Pas-de-Calais. In the process he developed an intense love of France and the French people. Later, Jack spent more than 12 years as training and development officer for the Methodist Church in East Anglia. The author's first novel, Doing Time, reflects his years as a chaplain in a Southern US women's prison. It expresses how the harsh reality of domestic violence is the path that leads most women to prison. Jack's second novel, No Good Deed (Wings ePress), is a story which examines America's two great passions: religion and war-revealing how the former can be as destructive as the latter, and how each is glossed with a patriotic morality which hides their darker realities. It follows two friends from the 1960s to the 2000s, one of whom (Kyle) serves in Vietnam while the other (Jon) goes to Canada as a conscientious objector. Their friendship is tested, but unbroken, by their choices. Over time, both become ministers, yet for very different reasons. The institutional church proves to be as challenging as the Vietnam War in ways they could never have imagined. Jack is married to Chris, a former mental health specialist who worked with children and families in the UK. They now reside in France.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781613095737 |
| ISBN 10 | 1613095732 |
| Title | No Good Deed |
| Author | Jack N Lawson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Wings Epress, Inc. |
| Year published | 2020-05-29 |
| Number of pages | 356 |
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