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Our Fathers Left Us Evangelicalism

January 6th, 2020 | 9 min read

By Cameron Shaffer

My Father Left Me Ireland is a memoir of longing and reclamation. Michael Brendan Dougherty recounts his rediscovery of his cultural roots and taking possession of an absent heritage as he reconnected with his absent Irish father. Dougherty sought an identity with meaning in contrast to his bare cultural experience, one of kitsch artificiality and vapidity. The cultural identity he found was in his father’s gift of Ireland, a legacy and heritage that went beyond them both. 

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Cameron Shaffer

Cameron Shaffer (PhD candidate, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is the Senior Pastor of Langhorne Presbyterian Church in Langhorne, Pennsylvania and serves on the Board of Directors for the World Reformed Fellowship.