Mr. Rogers Had a Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Children
The article makes an oblique reference to it, but it&#x27;s worth noting that Fred Rogers graduated from a theological Seminary and his television show was his Presbyterian ministry. Mr Rogers is at the same time a sort of stereotypical Christian character (imagine 
<i>The Simpsons</i>&#x27; Flanders without the satirical comedy aspects) and also not the image of a Christian minister that we usually see in the mainstream media and popular culture.<p>Mr Rogers may be most <i>intentionally</i>-Christian cultural influence that wasn&#x27;t widely noticed as &quot;Christian&quot;,  in the lives of millions of people --  for both many people who don&#x27;t think Christianity is a part of their lives as well as for many people who do.<p>I write this not to proselytize or to suggest that you should become Christian if you respect Mr Rogers, but as a reminder that the image you have in your mind of an X (for whatever X that is a large weakly-connected community) should not generalize to all X, and some very X-ey people might not look X-ey at all.<p>The article also shows that there is often a lot of hard work and educated insight behind things that look very simple and basic.