How’s Your Faith?: An Unlikely Spiritual Journey by David Gregory
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a hard review to write because I have mixed feelings about the book. the author is David Gregory who was an NBC journalist, covering the George W. Bush White House and also hosting Meet the Press. The book is really an autobiography structured around the author’s journey to find spiritual meaning in his life. It’s a story that I think will resonate to anyone who has undertaken a similar spiritual journey. It is not always easy to connect the religious faith one had as a child to your spiritual needs as an adult. Mr. Gregory is Jewish, but as he says, his Jewishness was more of a cultural identification than religious. But when he married and began t think about raising a family, he and his wife began to talk about religion and he had to re-examine his own religious identity which was the start of his journey.

I’ve heard Mr. Gregory speak on the topic of faith, and he’s a great speaker. He covered several of the points that he makes in this book.

The book is an engaging story and it’s well-written and easy to read. But one of the things that began to bother me in the second half of the book was Mr Gregory’s easy access to many well known pastors, rabbis, priests and imams. Some of these interviews or conversations seemed more like name dropping than anything else. And even for those that fit well into the narrative, it seemed a little off-putting. Not all of us have the opportunity to talk with the Cardinal of New York about our spiritual issues.

Overall I do recommend the book. And if you get the change to hear Mr. Gregory speak, it is definitely worth your time.