Brad J. Tharpe

BRAD J. THARPE {[email protected]} serves as Director of Career Services at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He has worked in college chaplaincy at The Claremont Colleges and at DePauw University. Brad also has worked at Wake Forest University, most recently as Associate Director of the Master of Arts in Bioethics program and earlier as the Assistant Director of the Pro Humanitate Center, where he facilitated vocational discernment among students. Brad lives with his wife, Sara, and three energetic children.

Walking the Narrow Path | Patrick Q. Mason, Planted: Belief and Belonging in an Age of Doubt

Articles/Essays – Volume 49, No. 2

While reading Planted one evening, I turned to my wife, Sara, and said, “I think that we are in the book.” I was reading an anecdote that Patrick shares near the end about some non-LDS Christian friends who attend a ward Christmas party. As they observe people talking and children running around, the friends comment on how much they admire the community because it feels like a real family (170). I remember making those comments.