How a Man of the Coasts and Cities Found Christ

Zachary Bako

My memoir, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ, is out soon, and Christianity Today has run a short preview:

Looking back on my life, I see that Christ was beckoning to me at every turn. When I was a child, he was there in the kindness of a Christian babysitter and the magic of a Christmas Eve spent at her house. When I was a troubled young man contemplating suicide, he was in the voice of a Christian baseball player who gave a radio interview that inspired me to go on. And always, he was in the day-to-day miracle of my marriage, a lifelong romance that taught me the reality of love and slowly led me to contemplate the greater love that was its source and inspiration.

Read the whole thing here. And get the book here.