Chasing Francis...

I don't often do book recommendations per se on this blog, but I have to make an exception for this one! Chasing Francis by Ian Morgan Cron is superb. It's a novel about one man's loss of faith in the Evangelical mega-church he founded years before the story begins, and his (re-)discovery of a living faith in Christ by "following Francis following Jesus." Chase Falson has the great good fortune - if that's the right word for it - to have an uncle who is a Franciscan friar based in Florence, who leads him on a pilgrimage in the footsteps of St. Francis. What happens then is far too good for me to spoil by writing it down here. Get the book - it's less than £10 including the postage - and don't expect to put it down till you reach the study guide in the back. (It's a 21st Century postmodern American spiritual novel - of course it's got a blinking study guide in the back...)