![]() ![]() ![]() If we stop listening to Leon Hubbard's story and all the neighborhood stories like it, eventually the neighborhoods will stop listening to ours.What do the religious and spiritual lives of American young people look like as they reach their mid to late 20s, enter the full-time job market, and start families? In Back Pocket God, the authors provide a look beyond conflicting stories that argue that emerging adults either are overwhelmingly leaving religion or are earnest spiritual seekers maintaining a significant place in their lives for religion. ![]() We owe Leon Hubbard an apology, and all the people who knew him and loved him and worked with him. ![]() And in the end, they die like everyone else leaving their families and their houses and their legends. And they argue there about things they don't understand. They drink at The Hollywood, or the Uptown Bar, little places deep in the city. They work, marry, and have children who inhabit the Pocket, often in the homes of their mothers and fathers. Richard Shellburn: Leon Hubbard was like the other working people of God's Pocket: dirty-faced, uneducated, neat as a pin inside. But, then, Leon Hubbard wasn't important. Leon Hubbard's death was reported incorrectly by this newspaper last week. There was a time when a 23-year-old working man could die once, have the event noticed in his local newspaper, and then move on to his reward without the complications of an additional death. Richard Shellburn: Until recently, you only had to die once in this city. ![]()
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