Dwight W. Hoover, emeritus professor of history and former director of the Center for Midwestern Studies at Ball State University, has also written three other books. This was a gift book.  Read more

Francesca Ambrogetti, a journalist and social psychologist, has headed Associations for Foreign Press and Correspondents. She works with international media and the Vatican Radio. Sergio Rubin, an award-winning author and journalist, is chief of religious news for the Argentinian newspaper Clarin and its supplement Valores Religiosos. My paperback edition was a gift.  Read more

Fred Kaplan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and the Graduate College of the City University of New York, is the author of several biographies. He was a finalist for the National Book Critics Award and the Pulitzer Prize. This was a gift book.  Read more

After leaving her religious order in 1969, Karen Armstrong took a literature degree at Oxford and has become one of the world’s foremost commentators on religious affairs and historians of world religions. This, her first book, was a recent gift. (For her many books I’ve read, click on her name.)  Read more

Tom Harpur, a Rhodes Scholar, Anglican priest, and Professor of New Testament and Greek at the University of Toronto, had for many years a religion column in the Toronto Star. His commitment to developing a relevant, inclusive and reasonable faith has won him international recognition, in large part confirmed by his 2005 book The Pagan Christ – a bestseller.  Read more