Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feileris an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 October 1964
CountryUnited States of America
hate book confession
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
dream book writing
Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
book writing
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
book home thinking
I think that most of the action in religion is around the home, is in families, and is in individual lives, and they can go on their own searches, watch their own TV shows, read their own books, form their own groups and discuss it, but that's where the action is - on the home front.
meaningful religious book
We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.
books five hebrew moses rest spent year
'Walking the Bible' describes the year that I spent retracing the five books of Moses through the desert, and I was actually working on a follow-up, which would look at the rest of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
books definitely national overused subscribe suddenly talked
I definitely subscribe to the idea that 9/11, to use an overused phrase, was a wake-up call. There was a year-long national teach-in on Islam - everyone read books and suddenly talked about Islam, and that was very productive. But there's no doubt that moment has passed.
children skills giving
If you tell your own story to your children - that includes your positive moments and your negative moments, and how you overcame them - you give your children the skills and the confidence they need to feel like they can overcome some hardship that they've felt.
america domain
Religion is increasingly a woman's domain in America.
skeletons lines want
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
thinking way stories
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
stories narrative inspired
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
kids dinner heard
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
spiritual connections generations
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.