When his Methodist wife, Beth Wilkinson, agreed to rear their children as Jews, she asked him what Judaism meant to him, beyond his warm cultural memories and recollections of a showy bar mitzvah party. But three questions asked of me set me on the path to finding answers,” Gregory told Religion News Service.įirst question: “I know who you are, but what do you believe?” “I’ve been asking tough questions all my life in my career. His book is a travelogue about “deepening and grounding myself in my faith path,” he said in an interview. It’s clear from the opening pages that Gregory - son of a Jewish father and Irish Catholic mother - began as a cultural Jew and has became a religious one.

READ: US Jewish numbers no longer declining, but demographic worries persist “How’s Your Faith? An Unlikely Spiritual Journey” goes on sale this week, between the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and Yom Kippur, the somber Day of Atonement, when Jews “turn to God and ask to be inscribed in the book of life.” However, Gregory, 45, has taken his abrupt unemployment as an opportunity - time to write a book on the religious life he had been nurturing for years. He learned the news when the network leaked it on Twitter while Gregory was in the New Hampshire hills picking up his three children from camp. He was unceremoniously dumped as moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” in August 2014 after a steep slide in the ratings.

(RNS) To be publicly fired from a high-profile network television post might provoke a spiritual crisis for anyone.

The Last Christian by David Gregory