Pastor Stephen Grant?

Stephen Grant is the pastor at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church on eastern Long Island. Grant is one of the more unique second-career clergy around, as he once worked for the CIA. Besides theology, his interests include archery, golf, writing, classic films, the beach, poker, baseball, and history. Grant also knows his wines, champagnes and brews. Oh yes, he generally dislikes politicians, and happens to be an expert marksman with a handgun and a rifle, while being pretty handy with a combat knife as well.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Christian Thrillers Speak to Selection of New Pope


Long Island, NY – Novelist Ray Keating not only pens Christian thrillers that take readers on exciting rides, but he manages to weave into those tales a host of issues that speak to and challenge Christianity today.

That includes speculation as to who might succeed Benedict XVI as pope for the Roman Catholic Church.

Keating said, “There’s a great deal of speculation that the next pope will come from Africa, Asia or Latin America. That makes sense given the growing importance of those regions within global Christianity. And that’s exactly why in my Pastor Stephen Grant novels, I’ve had one pope hail from Nigeria, and another from the Dominican Republic.”

Keating has written three Christian thrillers – WARRIOR MONK: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL, ROOT OF ALL EVIL? A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL, and AN ADVENT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL. He is working on his next book.

While the novels mix action, intrigue, compelling characters, humor, and mystery, they also touch on issues that will affect the next pope and all of Christianity, including religious liberty, moral relativism, money and the economy, militant secularism, radical Islam, and the role of Holy Scripture.

U.S. Congressman Peter King (R-NY) has called Keating’s work “a fast-moving, riveting read right out of today’s – and tomorrow’s – headlines.” A recent reviewer echoed this: “Ray Keating has a knack for writing on topics that could be pulled from tomorrow's headlines.”

WARRIOR MONK: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL, ROOT OF ALL EVIL? A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL, and AN ADVENT FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY: A PASTOR STEPHEN GRANT NOVEL are available at Amazon.com.

In addition to being a novelist, Keating is a newspaper columnist with the Dolan Company and formerly with Newsday, an economist, an entrepreneur and an adjunct college professor.

Regarding Keating’s thrillers, reviewers and commentators have used phrases like “fun adventure romp,” “a fun, intriguing read,” and “a good read, both as pure thriller entertainment and for pondering the Christian mind.”

Amazon.com readers have compared Ray Keating’s thrillers to the works of Clancy, Ludlum, Grisham, and Cussler.

Review copies, interviews for the media, and author appearances are available upon request.

Contact: Ray Keating
Phone: 631-909-1122
E-mail: KeatingReports@aol.com
PastorStephenGrant.com

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