Books

Five years ago, Lawrence Carter published a book.  Two years ago, I received my signed copy and sat it on my bedside table.  Two weeks ago, I picked it up and started reading. I’m glad I did, and so will you when you open this captivating narrative of his journey as a person, as a scholar, and as a seeker after truth. Lawrence Carter is Dean of the Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel. I met him when I went to Atlanta promoting the Academy of Preachers in 2009. I had never heard of him, and he had never heard of me.  But he welcomed me to the chapel, and his students became the largest contingent of young ...