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It has been a long time since I picked up a book and did not want to put it down. I normally find myself in the middle of reaching three or four books at a time. However, recently I found a book that broke that habit. I kept wanting to find out what would happen next and I think most who pick it up will feel the same way.
A Father’s Voice is a powerful story that masterfully brings together three serious issues of today’s culture and sets them on a collision course. What happens when they collide is something that speaks greater volumes than just one person’s view or belief. Author Steven Parent dares to take on the question of “why” and takes the reader through an emotional roller coaster maze to get answers.
The journey will bring you to laughter as well as tears, while simultaneously rooting for a father caught in the cross hairs of a society that says his voice does not matter. When Michael Bishope finds out he is going to be a father he sees the beginning of a life-long dream coming true. But, when his wife tells him he will never be a father and she seeks an abortion, Michael refuses to give up.
His journey to truth, answers, and parenthood takes the reader through the same journey. During a moment of doubt about if there was anything he could do about her decision to get an abortion, a friend challenges him to take her to court to stop her. The court challenge is an earthshaking scream to our culture of a voice that is ignored and overlooked. The child inside a woman is the result of two individuals, not just the mother, but one voice is silenced in a culture that tells a father his desires do not matter and have no influence.
Putting his marriage on the line for the sake of his baby, all while maintaining a deep love for his wife, Michael finds himself not just managing the stress of a court battle but experiencing strange incidents with his wife that seem to have no explanation. The fight for an unborn life not only teaches him how silenced a father is during these decisions, but also pulls back a veil of his wife’s past she desperately tried to hide. To have a new start, his wife hides her horrendous past from Michael. Soon, he finds himself on a plane heading to the root of the issue. The destination will bring Michael face-to-face with the source of his wife’s mental health and psychiatric problems while giving him the answer to his great question: “why?”
It’s not easy to successfully create a book dealing with abortion that is as addictive as A Father’s Voice. However, this story takes it to a bold new depth by tackling not only abortion but includes mental health and severe child abuse. All three issues are handled with care, sensitivity and in a manner that causes the reader to relate to all aspects and both sides of the battle. Michael’s fight could easily be a battle of any father of an aborted child. His voice becomes the voice of those who have been silenced.
Amelia Monroe Carlson graduated from the University of North Alabama with a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism. Being raised as a Methodist during her early years, it was not until she entered college where she began to take her faith seriously. She was baptized as a Southern Baptist in Muscle Shoals, AL and began immediately serving in international missions and in the church.
During college, she became the Co-founder of an International Ministry, where she spent time traveling and speaking to church groups and in large conferences. She authored a Bible study and traveled abroad on mission work. She sat on the Mid-South Interfaith Conferences in Mississippi, where she defended the faith and discussed beliefs with leaders of various religions.
After a business trip to Washington D.C., where she was introduced to a former Baptist who converted to the Catholic Church, she was placed on a journey to enter into the Catholic Church.
Amelia is a military wife and currently residents with her husband and daughter in Tennessee. She is a nine time award winning journalist, receiving press awards for various categories including investigative journalism, best news coverage, and best single feature. It is her desire to help Catholics, particularly Cradle Catholics, see the beauty in their faith which converts see and appreciate the fullness of truth which the Church has held and guarded throughout history. It is her desire all Catholics fall as much in love with Jesus as she is, and love the Church to a greater capacity than they could imagine.
Amelia taught PRE for 4-6 grade at St. Mary Catholic Church in Bolivar, Tennessee from 2014-2016. She served as Youth Director at St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church in Somerville, Tennessee in 2017-2018. She now teaches 7th grade (1st year Confirmation) PRE class at St. Philip. She's also a writer and frequent podcast guest on Our Warpath.
She has a strong devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, St. Francis de Sales, St. Padre Pio and St. Maximilian Kolbe.
To contact Amelia for speaking inquiries at conferences, retreats, or parishes contact her via social media on Facebook (Amelia Monroe Carlson), Twitter (@2_catholic ) or send a text to: (731)518-6923.
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