God's Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India | 1 Edition

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“A classic for our time, a testimony matching our best efforts to keep the faith and celebrate the diversity around us.” —Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Parkman Professor of Divinity and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University God’s Other Children by Bradley Malkovsky is a charming spiritual travelogue that tells the tale of a Catholic religious scholar who goes to India to study Hinduism and winds up falling in love with and marrying a Muslim. Malkvosky, who holds a degree in Catholic theology, shares how his spiritual journey grew his faith, while raising questions about it that he had never considered, and how it changed his life in ways he could never have imagined. Inspiring and profound, God’s Other Children: Personal Encounters with Faith, Love, and Holiness in Sacred India offers a fascinating perspective on how people of all faiths encounter God. Winner of the Huston Smith Publishing Prize from HarperOne. “The most interesting and inspiring book that I have read in a very long time.” —Huston Smith, author of The World’s Religions “A candid memoir about [an] unusual spiritual journey and a plea for ecumenical tolerance.” —Kirkus Reviews “A spiritual adventure story that illustrates the freedom and fulfillment that can be discovered in encounters with other religions and their practices.” —Spirituality and Practice “An important work that I hope will have wide reception among scholars and ordinary readers alike.” —Seyyed Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington University, author of Islam in the Modern World “Malkovsky’s sensitive, personal and gripping account raises important questions and offers thought-provoking insights to Christians in general and Catholics in particular.” —Swami Tyagananda, Hindu Chaplain, Harvard University and co-author of Interpreting Ramakrishna: Kali’s Child Revisited