Description: Published in the years following 9/11, David Darks book The Gospel according to America warned American Christianity about the false worship that conflates love of country with love of God. It delved deeply into the political divide that had gripped the country and the cultural...
Brief description:
David Dark is Assistant Professor of Religion and the Arts at Belmont University. In addition to writing The Gospel according to America, he is the author of Lifes Too Short to Pretend Youre Not Religious, The Sacredness of Questioning Everything, and Everyday Apocalypse. His workhas appeared in Pitchfork, Paste, and America Magazine.
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"Rich prose and complex, challenging speculation of a truly deep thinker who is in love with language. Think Kurt Vonnegut meets Howard Zinn meets G.K. Chesterton meets Howard Thurman. This is a chasmal dive of introspection into the very psyche of how we, as a nation, got here and what exactly we've become." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette