Synopses & Reviews
Following his ground breaking New York Times bestseller, The Good Book: Reading the Bible With Mind and Heart, Peter J. Gomes offers us the first major collection of his sermons, in which he draws on wisdom of the Bible to guide us through the year and enrich our daily lives.
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"Alternately bracing and soothing, these short pieces are a wonderful way to begin or end each day." David Gergen,.Editor at Large, U.S. News & World Report
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"Provocative in his delivery, dazzling in his alliteration ... he can string words together in ways that penetrate right down deep." Alan K. Simpson, former U.S. Senator
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"...One of the most dedicated, knowledgeable, articulate, and persuasive spokesmen for the Christian religion in the present secular age.." Nathan Marsh Pusey, President Emeritus, Harvard University
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"With great learning and wit, Reverend Peter J. Gomes stirs our souls and stimulates our minds ..." James O. Freedman, President, Dartmouth College
About the Author
Peter J. Gomes has been minister of Harvard University's Memorial Church since 1974, when he was appointed Pusey Minister of the church, and serves as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. An American Baptist minister, he was named one of America's top preachers by Time magazine. He is the recipient of thirty-three honorary degrees and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, the University of Cambridge, England, where the Gomes Lectureship is established in his name.Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a MacArthur Fellow, holds the W.E.B. Dubois Chair and is director of the African-American Studies Department at Harvard University. He won the American Book Award in 1989 for The Signifying Monkey.