HITTING THE BREAKS: A Pocket Full of Theodores

(CCC, BBB, M) Dominant Christian worldview, main family goes to church, pray before meals, husband and wife pray together in bed, sheriff regularly talks about his work in choir at church, father of main character describes redemption in journal entries, Luke 22:34 is quoted, children are described as “a heritage from the Lord,” moral elements, family is stressed as important, lying is condemned; no foul language, but some crude humor, character is jokingly described as needing a “gentler laxative”; no real violence; no sex; no nudity; no alcohol use; no smoking or drugs; and, wife’s parents have a dysfunctional relationship and openly ignore and mock each other, and townspeople deceive the wife’s father in an attempt to help her husband.