The Book of Cain: On Adding a New Book to the Family Bible

Catholic Media Association Award Winner  First Place - Family Life   “Bill Cain reminds you to remember that no part of your story is untouched by God’s yearning to be intimate. . . . The essence of revelation is to find the revealing as it still happens. It didn’t stop 2000 years ago, as Bill Cain insists. What is revealed in the present moment is eternally replenishing and inviting us to cherish. Choosing to cherish with every breath is not hard. Remembering to cherish . . . now that’s difficult.  This book reminds us to remember.”—From the Foreword by Gregory Boyle, SJ The Bible, as Bill Cain reminds us, is largely made up of family stories—stories of birth and death, of generations and legacies, joys and losses—with the astonishing claim that in these stories God is telling us a sacred story. What makes us think that story ended 2,000 years ago? In this moving account of the months he spent caring for his mother through the ordeal following a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he