Alex Joyner reviews Exactly as You Are on Heartlands

Author and United Methodist pastor Alex Joyner wrote a lovely, thorough review of Exactly as You Are on his website, Heartlands. Here’s a taste:

Exactly As You Are: The Life and Faith of Mister Rogers is Tuttle’s inquiry, born of love, to try and uncover something about the man behind Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the long-running PBS children’s program that, for many of us, became as much a part of our childhood furniture as the couches on which we curled up to watch. Yet, despite hundreds of episodes produced over five decades, Tuttle admits that the man himself was something of a mystery. He was at once serious and whimsical, gentle and moved by anger, privileged and yet drawn to those who were excluded or outcast.

He was also motivated by a deep and abiding faith, which was also a bit hard to put your finger on because he found it difficult to talk about. As Tuttle shows, however, that faith found its way into everything he did.

Read the full review here.