Bruce Feiler
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born
October 25, 1964
gender
male
place of birth
Savannah, Georgia, The United States
genre
Religion & Spirituality, History
about this author
Bruce Feiler is a writer on social issues and, particularly more recently, on religion. He tends to write in an accessible, conversational style, blending travelogue, interviews, autobiography, and personal musings with history and archaeology. He writes on religion from a progressive point of view. Some of his back catalog of books was republished in paperback after the commercial success of his Walking the Bible (2001). He hosted a television version with the same name, shown on PBS.
He is credited with formulating the Feiler Faster Thesis: the increasing pace of society and journalists' ability to report it is matched by the public's desire for more information.
Feiler is a native of Savannah, Georgia, and now lives...more
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Bruce Feiler on tour for the book "America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story"
Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:30PM
Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, The United States
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Author appearance, November 11, 2009 07:30PM
Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, The United States
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Bruce Feiler on tour for the book "America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story"
Author appearance, November 17, 2009 07:00PM
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH, The United States
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Author appearance, November 17, 2009 07:00PM
Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 2692 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH, The United States
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Bruce Feiler on tour for the book "America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story"
Author appearance, November 18, 2009 07:00PM
The Bridge Institute, 400 San Juan Drive, Ponte Vedra, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, The United States
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Author appearance, November 18, 2009 07:00PM
The Bridge Institute, 400 San Juan Drive, Ponte Vedra, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, The United States
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""In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God...If that spirit is life, then I found life...If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three...all I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.""
— Bruce Feiler
— Bruce Feiler
""...I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching these places, walking these roads,and asking these questions had added another column to my being. And the only possible explanation I could find for that feeling was that a spirit existed in many of the places I visited, and a spirit existed in me and the two had somehow met in the course of my travels. It's as if the godliness of the land and the godliness of my being had fused." "
— Bruce Feiler
— Bruce Feiler
"But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
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— Bruce Feiler (Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths)
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— Bruce Feiler (Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths)
















