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    My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
    My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
    My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
    Audiobook11 hours

    My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith

    Written by Robert Clark

    Narrated by Brian Keeler

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    About this audiobook

    Author of the Edgar Award-winning mystery, Mr. White's Confession, Robert Clark explores mysteries of a different nature in this powerful history of doubt, faith, and religious belief. Culminating in the author's own conversion to the Catholic Church, this thought-provoking book documents five centuries of his family's spiritual evolution. When Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church at the end of the Middle Ages, Robert Clark's ancestors went with him. Eventually the Puritans among them made it to the American colonies. One of them, a doctor, was present at the Salem witch trials. A more recent relative, a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, added Transcendentalism to the Clark legacy. Using a genealogy more colorful than most, Robert Clark has created an insightful, historically rich autobiography. Brian Keeler's warm narration leaves listeners inspired by the author's personal journey and invites them to ask some thoughtful questions of their own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMay 2, 2008
    ISBN9781436141123
    My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith
    Author

    Robert Clark

    Robert Clark began his career with Corrections Canada in 1980, working in the gymnasium at the medium-security Joyceville Institution. Over the next thirty years, he would work in seven different federal prisons, at every level of security, in every conceivable role. Clark lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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      This is a very unusual book. It is part memoir, part spiritual/philosophical history and part American saga over several generations. It makes me wonder about the so-called religion gene -- that people are wired for faith (in varying amounts).