"The Coming Age of Personal Religion" Paul Snider with daughter Sue Sebesta

This week we feature the newly published book "The Coming Age of Personal Religion" by Paul Snider with our special guest, his daughter, Sue Sebesta. Paul Snider grew up in the back streets and alleyways of Detroit and, alternately, on an apple farm near Georgian Bay, Ontario. He moved fifteen times before he was twelve. His religious life has often been checkered, with patches of light and shadow. During the Korean War he was what has been described as "an atheist in a foxhole." Nevertheless, he survived the war with two purple hearts. Years later he learned he was not an atheist at all. What he had been denying all along was the clouded, inconsistent, man-made image of God. Today, there is a mounting spiritual hunger rising in the souls of men and women throughout the world, greater in scale than at any time in human history. The traditional sources of inspiration – the world’s formalized religions – do not always satisfy this growing hunger. Every religion is sincere and beautiful in its own way, but almost all are heavy with dogma and rituals and traditions that may seem limiting to the spiritually adventurous mind… to many, something seems to be missing; the hunger grows like an ache in the soul. Personal religion comes into being to satisfy these longings... It is the compelling stimulus to search for ever deeper and more meaningful relationships with God and fellow man. Personal religion is thus a religion of expanded relationships, of independence from dogma and confining boundaries… Personal religion is the act of man establishing a direct and personal relationship with his Maker and all that flows from the relationship. Please join us on this week's show to explore more about this amazing man, his inspiring life and what promises to be a profoundly seminal work, his new book which explains the new age of personal religion.