The Good Book

Nice idea but I was imagining a stronger assemblage of writers and more of a literary focus.......more

Reading this was enjoyable and thought-provoking. I enjoyed the wide selection of authors, none of whom was a “religious” author.......more

Twenty-five writers comment on passages from the Bible that are meaningful to them, and another seven comment more generally on the Bible as a whole. It's an uneven collection; some of the selections I thought are especially insightful, others seemed pretty pedestrian. The writers represent individu......more

The common threads that run through these writer's reflections on different aspects of the Hebrew and Christian Scripture is that they are writers and that they are reflecting on the Bible. The individual writers may or may not have faith in God. They may or may not have been raised in the faith. Th......more

The essays are written by a very diverse group of authors/writers with religious leanings all over the map. The authors are agnostic, Jewish, Protestant, Catholic and even atheist. Most are thought-provoking whether one agrees with them or not. One highlight was the essay by Cokie and Steven Roberts......more