Karen Armstrong’s writings on religion (A History
of God, The Great Transformation) are academic yet completely accessible. In The Case for God, she explores the current deviation from faith that
contemporary society has embraced and how it differs completely from humankind’s previous need to experience a “sacred reality.” Armstrong explores the possibility that our latest path is flawed, and that a closer examination of the insights contained in faith-building might heal some of the separation our global life creates. —Adrienne Mages

What if our beliefs were not what divided us, but what pulled us together? The author of Tuesdays with Morrie has written an inspirational (and true) story about a remarkable eight-year journey between two worlds—two men, two faiths, two communities. When an 82-year-old rabbi from Albom’s old hometown asks him to deliver his eulogy, Mitch throws
himself back into a world of faith he’d left years ago.

Meanwhile, closer to his current home, Albom becomes involved with a Detroit pastor who preaches to the poor and homeless in a decaying church with a hole in its roof. Moving between their worlds—Jewish and Christian, white and African American, well-to-do and impoverished—Albom observes how these very different men employ faith similarly in fighting for survival.