“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – St. Augustine
Since I’ve built up a large collection of extra books and resources, every week I give some away absolutely free, no strings attached.
Each giveaway lasts seven days with a new one beginning every Friday. You can enter any time during the week. Check out my past giveaways here.
Thanks to Saint Benedict Press, I’m giving away THREE copies of Joseph Pearce’s powerful new memoir, Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love.
I finished the book a couple days ago, and it confirmed that he’s one of today’s most gifted Catholic writers. Like the men and and women he’s chronicled through his many biographies, Pearce knows how to weave a compelling narrative. His gripping conversion from violence and hate to the Catholic Church will grab your attention and stir your heart. It’s one of the best books of 2013.
Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love
by Joseph Pearce
Saint Benedict Press, 264 pages, hardcover
Released on September 5, 2013
Before he was the world’s foremost Catholic biographer, Joseph Pearce was a leader of the National Front, a British-nationalist, white-supremacist group. Before he published books highlighting and celebrating the great Catholic cultural tradition, he disseminated literature extolling the virtues of the white race, and calling for the banishment of all non-white from Britain.
Pearce and his cohorts were at the center of the racial and nationalist tensions—often violent—that swirled around London in the late-1970s and early 80s. Eventually Pearce became a top member of the National Front, and the editor of its newspaper, The Bulldog. He was a full-time revolutionary.
In 1982 he was imprisoned for six months for hate speech, but he came out with more anger, and more resolve. Several years later, he was imprisoned again, this time for a year and it spurred a sea change in his life.
In Race With the Devil: My Journey from Racial Hatred to Rational Love, Pearce himself takes the reader through his journey from racist revolutionary to Christian, including:
- The youthful influences that lead him to embrace the National Front and their racist platform
- His dark, angry, exhilarating but ultimately empty days as a revolutionary on the front lines
- His imprisonment and subsequent dark night of the soul
- The role that Catholic luminaries such as G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, and C. S. Lewis played in his conversion from racist radical to joyful Christian
- And his eventual reception in the Catholic Church
Race With the Devil is one man’s incredible journey to Christ, but it also much more. It is a testament to God’s hand active among us and the infinite grace that Christ pours out on his people, showing that we can all turn—or return—to Christ and his Church.
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The winner(s) will be randomly selected next Friday and the books will be sent out, free of charge, shortly thereafter.
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(Since I’m covering the shipping costs, only residents within the continental United States are eligible to win.)