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Author, Abraham and Walking the Bible
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At a moment when the world is asking, “Can the religions get along?” Bruce Feiler, bestselling author of Walking the Bible and Abraham, offers a powerful interfaith message and a hopeful vision for peace and reconciliation. His work has helped bring people together, sparking dialogue about faith and community, religion and politics, and shared values.
In Walking the Bible: A Journey By Land Through the Five Books of Moses, Feiler recounts his travels through the Middle East, connecting biblical stories to their actual sites and interviewing people from many religious traditions. Celebrated by the Washington Post as "an instant classic," Walking the Bible spent over a year on The New York Times bestsellers list and has been translated into 15 languages.
 The audience was completely under your spell during your entire presentation. You touched souls, and I'm still getting calls to say how wonderful a day it |
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In Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, Feiler retraces the footsteps of the common ancestor of Jews, Christians and Muslims. “September 11 contributed to a wholesale rethinking of how religions relate to one another,” says Feiler. “Abraham holds the key to understanding what separates these religions -- and, ultimately, what unites them.”
Praised as “a revolution in thought” by TIME magazine, which featured the book on its cover, Abraham was named one the best books of the year by Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, The Christian Science Monitor and Publishers Weekly. His "Abraham Salons," in which religious leaders and laypeople gather for interfaith discussions, have been heralded as a major breakthrough in building peaceful relations among religions and have been adopted by universities and community organizations nationwide.
Feiler builds on his winning combination of history, religion, adventure and personal discovery with Where God Was Born: A Journey By Land to the Roots of Religion (Sept. 2005). The book recounts his 10,000- mile trek through Israel, Iraq and Iran, visiting archaeological and biblical sites and uncovering new information about the untold links among Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Hailed as one of the leading writers of his generation, Feiler has visited over 60 countries, immersing himself in different cultures and recording his experiences in six critically-acclaimed books. He has been a schoolteacher in Japan (Learning to Bow), a student at Oxford and Cambridge (Looking for Class), a circus clown (Under the Big Top) and a traveler with singer Garth Brooks (Dreaming Out Loud).
A graduate of Yale, Feiler holds a master’s degree in international relations from Cambridge. A regular contributor to NPR’s “All Things Considered,” he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and Washington Post, and is a contributing editor at Gourmet and Parade.
In January of 2006, PBS aired Walking the Bible With Bruce Feiler, a landmark three-part TV mini-series, written, produced and hosted by Feiler, and based on his bestselling book. Part adventure story, part archaeological detective work, part spiritual exploration, The Wall Street Journal called it “three splendid hours of television” and Feiler “an engaging and informed guide.”