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"For those who have spent years of adulthood circling around questions of faith, it may be a little jarring to witness Trisha's hasty conversion," says Rebecca Ascher-Walsh in Entertainment Weekly . Most critics describe it as a departure from King's usual style--it's overtly religious and a mere 250 pages long.
One True Thing doesn't employ fantasy (at least not overtly) but tries to stir similar regrets about the feminist dismissal of housewives: You moved to New York and the heartless magazine world, you dressed in black, you rejected Mom.
That system, the creation of the management guru W. Edwards Deming, replaces overtly bureaucratic control with self-managing work teams and an emphasis on a "common vision."
Bush claims that overtly religious programs work better than their more secular counterparts because they use "the transforming power of faith."
Why do overtly Christian messages bother him so much?