![]() ![]() Kate's doubt never extends to the principles of her faith itself, but she does grapple with pertinent and difficult issues that face teens who are trying to live out their beliefs in a culture that finds them quaint at best. Matt, for instance, is in a fraternity at his college, but she is definitely falling for him and he for her, and their make-out sessions bring her to the point where she finally understands how hard it is to resist sexual temptation. ![]() ![]() When she takes a job as a counselor at church camp, she thinks she will find like-minded friends, but she discovers that even here, the other counselors have a cavalier attitude toward partying and sex before marriage. Moreover, she can't understand how people who ostensibly share her beliefs can behave in ways that the Bible says are wrong. Now, at eighteen, Kate is experiencing her own crisis of faith: since she helped her friend Emily get an abortion, she can't forgive herself either, and she can't believe that God forgives her. Kate goes to the same super-strict church that turned against Parker when Parker's mother left to move in with her girlfriend (in Stealing Parker, BCCB 1/13). ![]()
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