Best-Selling Author Rediscovers His Faith While Penning Last Book
"I realized what I had missed. It wasn't an 'I woke up one morning' kind of thing. It was a slow realization something incredibly powerful and beautiful in the faith that I grew up with that I was missing." -Malcolm Gladwell, Author of "Outliers" and "Blink."
Malcolm Gladwell, author of several New York Times best-selling (non-Christian) books has revealed in a recent interview that while working on his newest book, "David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants"—which has "faith-related themes"—he began rediscovering his own faith.
Excerpts from his interview with Religion News Service follow. (Note: to read it in its entirety, click here)
Asked about non-biblical examples of faith influencing power (as seen in the David and Goliath narrative), Gladwell says he incorporates several in his book, including a story about the Huguenots in France who defied the Nazis in WWII.
Gladwell also describes his upbringing in a Mennonite family in southwest Ontario, Canada.
"I had drifted away," he said, "[but] this book has brought me back into the fold. I was so incredibly struck in writing these stories by the incredible power faith had in people's lives—it has made a profound impact on me in my belief. That's been the completely unexpected effect of writing this book; I am in the process of rediscovering my own faith again."
