"Enriching...A well-written, absorbing depiction of a fascinating school."THE BOSTON GLOBEIn 1985, Ari L. Gldman took a year's leave from his job as a religion reporter for THE NEW YORK TIMES and enrolled in the Harvard Divnity School. What began as a project to deepen his knowledge of world religion became an extraordinary journey of spiritual illumination. Written with warmth, humor, and penetrating clarity, Goldman describes his extraordinary year, the surprising and enlightening students and teachers, he met, and his ongoing quest to determine what it means to take religion seriously today.A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR