MICHAEL KRASNY / Spiritual Envy: An Agnostic's Quest
“According
to the public-opinion polls, agnostics and atheists are the group
Americans trust least — even though nonbelievers conduct themselves more
ethically than do the religious faithful. It helps in reducing such
ignorance and fear for nonbelievers to come out of the closet and
profess not only their opinions but the emotional and intellectual
struggles behind them, as the always engaging Michael Krasny does in
this probing examination of his spirituality and ours.”
— Timothy Ferris, author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Unlike recent authors
who emphatically say No! or Yes! to God, Michael Krasny joins the millions who
know they don't know. As a radio host, college professor, and literary scholar,
he has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic. He has
discussed life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers in
virtually every discipline. And yet answers to some questions — the big,
three-o'clock-in-the-morning questions — elude him. Despite this, Krasny does
not discount belief systems or ridicule faith. Instead, he seeks. He explores
morality, eternal life, why we do good, and why evil sometimes triumphs, and
his quest is informed by artists, scientists, world events, and even films.
Personal and universal, timely and timeless, Spiritual Envy
is a deeply wise yet warmly welcoming conversation, an invitation to ask one's
own questions — no matter how inconclusive the answers.
Michael Krasny, PhD,
hosts the nation's most listened to locally produced public radio talk show, Forum with Michael
Krasny. Forum is heard
weekdays on KQED-FM in
“Michael
Krasny is both the conscience and alpha brain of the Bay Area, and
certainly one of the most thoughtful interviewers alive. That he’s also
fantastically open-minded and spiritually searching only increases his
appeal and importance. It’s hard to imagine radio, and the life of the
mind, for that matter, without him.”
— Dave Eggers, author of Zeitoun and What Is the What
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