Barry D. Cytron

Flashes of Grace

Christian Living

“‘This is my first (and last?) foray into the field of American religion.’ That’s how Patrick Henry self-identified decades back for a journal bio. We should all rejoice his prediction was mistaken. His newest book is the perfect antidote to our American age of spiritual discontent, his faith the right prescription for today: one shorn of doctrinal triumphalism, stamped with intellectual honesty and rigor, ever open to discovering religious wisdom in many crevices and byways. Reading this beautifully written spiritual autobiography instantly brought to mind W. H. Auden’s observation that ‘a Christian is never something one is, only something one can pray to become.’ For religious seekers on their way to becoming, no matter what their particular label, Flashes of Grace shows the way forward.”

Jews and Christians Speak of Jesus

World Religions

“These illuminating essays, which make the latest scholarship accessible to lay people, heighten immeasurably our appreciation of the relationship between the Christian and Jewish faiths.”