Roll Away the Stone: Saving America's Children

by Frederick Taylor

Roll Away the Stone is an inspiring response to a painful subject - the escalating number of abused, neglected, and impoverished children and families and the mounting severity of their problems. The author uses a familiar Biblical story (the raising of Lazarus from death) as a powerful metaphor for social action that brings together in one interactive process the resourcefulness of the privileged community, the resilience of the victims, visionary leadership, and the mysterious workings of faith-in-action. The author then projects the issue of persistent poverty of women and children and the parallel increase of crime, drugs, homelessness, ill health, inadequate education and underemployment onto the national liberal - conservative political debate. He challenges the narrowness of the existing debate as grounded in outdated assumptions about how the world works, and describes new, emerging paradigms that can lead us toward a society that works for everyone.

263 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

About the author

Frederick Taylor is a British novelist and historian specialising in modern German history.

He was educated at Aylesbury Grammar School and read History and Modern Languages at Oxford University. He did postgraduate work at Sussex University on the rise of the extreme right in Germany in the early twentieth century. Before embarking on the series of historical monographs for which he is best known, he translated The Goebbels Diaries 1939–1941 into English and wrote novels set in Germany.

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was a very interesting read. I enjoyed how he used the story of Lazarus and talked about how there needs to be a paradigm shift in politics and the implementation of solutions to social problems.