HARTFORD COURANT ON TGF

From a round-up of spirituality and religion books, Hartford Courant scribe Susan Campbell mentions The God Factor, last but hopefully, not least.

An Examination Of Religion In Our Country And In Our Lives
April 9, 2006
By SUSAN CAMPBELL, Courant Staff Writer

The latest in books on religion and spirituality run the gamut from the ridiculous to the sublime. . .

Finally – and in a spirituality-in-a-hurry class by itself – there is “The God Factor: Inside the Spiritual Lives of Public People” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $24) by religion writer Cathleen Falsani. As a series of essays about the famous and infamous and their thoughts on the divine, the book could easily creep off into treacle, but Falsani’s journalistic pragmatism keeps it square.

She includes here our modern patron saint Bono (U2’s lead singer), Native American author Sherman Alexie and Connecticut’s Henry Lee, who was raised a Buddhist and who, despite his exalted position as a forensic expert of the ages, says, “Science doesn’t always have the answers.”