Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes Spiritual Longing: Essays

In Glimpses of Another Land Eric Miller takes the reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of sharpened vision that redirects movement. An age featuring 9/11 as its defining moment surely requires probing reflection and judgment. Here Eric Miller with an alert eye and keen voice provides both. Eric Miller is one of the most thoughtful and graceful writers today--a combination of intelligence humility and faithful insight. I try to read everything he writes. What a gift to have so many of his essays collected in one place! --Mark Galli senior managing editor of Christianity Today Whether he writes about the Amish popular Christian music or the Pittsburgh Steelers Eric Millers prose sings with grace passion wit Pennsylvania patriotism and suffusing it all a sense of hope. His is an America of neighbors faith and peace not vacuous pop culture and political cant. In the tradition of Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry Eric Miller illumines for us a way back home. --Bill Kauffman author of Aint My America Its fitting that Eric Miller begins this book by talking about hope and longing. Grounded in a specific time and place clear-eyed about our troubles these essays offer bright glimpses of another land. --John Wilson editor of Books & Culture Eric Miller is quickly becoming one of the best evangelical cultural critics at work among us today. Always timely never trendy usually salty never cynical his essays have a winsome way of delighting us in the good drawing us out of ourselves in longing for a better more humane and divine mode of living in the world . . . May his tribe increase and find a way of loving the rest of us in. May they help us keep our hope alive. --Douglas A. Sweeney author of The American Evangelical Story These essays invite a new generation to appreciate an older legacy of post-partisan political hope. Here is a voice that echoes with Burke Chesterton Berry and above all Christopher Lasch. Millers pointed insights and intimate prose are invitations to both reflection and delight. --James K. A. Smith author of The Devil Reads Derrida Eric Miller is my favorite Christian cultural critic. I have been absorbing his writings for over a decade and they never fail to inspire me with hope for something better something real. If you havent read him you must. These essays will challenge you to think differently about what it means to be a human being in this world. --John Fea author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Eric Miller is Professor of American History at Geneva College in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (2010) and coeditor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historians Vocation (2010).