James E Hagerty: 2 books

"Rapture" follows the evolution of a gay man, Jerrod O'Rourke, from early youth to middle age. In the first chapter he witnesses the murder of an aged black umpire at a softball game. The sudden, guilt-ridden emptying of the ball diamond has the feel to this impressionable boy of the Biblical Rapture....

As religiously grounded moral arguments have become ever more influential factors in the national debate-particularly reinforced by recent presidential elections and the creation of the faith-based initiative office in the White House-journalists' ignorance about theological convictions has often...