K.C. McCarthy

I’m not a theologian. I’m not a scholar. I’m just an ordinary person who has happened to have lived a very eclectic life. I’ve been a seeker of truth since I can remember. Perhaps, being born in New Jersey to an Irish-Catholic family and then moving to the Protestant rural South of North Carolina at age 7, I was forced to contemplate the sometimes-dire consequences of being the only Roman Catholic Yankee in town. Having to explain to my classmates why I could eat a hot dog any day except on Friday was always a daunting task that probably set my course toward seeking deeper truths and clearer explanations beyond the accepted dogmas. At college I became a student of the religions of the world and was always amazed in discovering the essential similarities of the various religions even though they were founded at different times and places. It made me realize that there was a great universal truth about the one God and that we all were only subject to various amounts of that whole truth. It seemed in those years, seekers such as I, ended up either marching against the war, smoking copious amounts of weed or were searching for and finding a new expression of God that was being offered by the array of new religious movements. I was no different. My path was toward the spiritual and for the next thirty years of my life I was given the opportunity to engage in dialogue and fellowship with literally thousands of clergy, priests and teachers of most all of the faiths of the world. This indescribably rich experience is truly the foundation of this book. I’m sure the question will be rightly asked, “who am I to write such a book as this?” I can only answer in the same way as did the wisest man I’ve ever known when his work was being questioned. He said, “I am nobody, but I tell you this, I feel the presence of God each day in every cell of my body.” All I can say is, if this book has any merit at all, it is only because I have been able to read the Bible without the preconceived dogmas that have, in so many ways, led us away from all that we should and could realize about Jesus. That’s who I am, I'm just a seeking trying to realize Jesus on a new and deeper level. . .and, in fact those are my best credentials.