Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
In this disarmingly witty look at the disrepair of the divine, George Dennis O’Brien offers a guide for finding the sacred in the everyday. Christopher Lasch called the book, first published over twenty years ago, “an astute analysis of our spiritual malaise.” God and the New Haven Railway, with a new preface by the author, speaks to us still with humor and hope because neither God nor the railroad seems to be running much better today.
“O’Brien . . . a remarkably nimble thinker, abandons the railway simile from time to time, but he is never at a loss for a clever figure of speech in this brief examination of the faded state of modern belief.” —Boston Globe
George Dennis O’Brien is president emeritus of the University of Rochester. He is the author of a number of books, including Finding the Voice of the Church (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007).