Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.

Trying to impose the will of the United States on Iraq (and now Syria) took a deadly toll, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, destroying much of modern and ancient Iraq, sending into exile millions of refugees—and created ISIS.

Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.

The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.

Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.

Either way, if Trump’s candidacy is a problem, pundits on the right and left have thought of it specifically as a “white trash” problem.