Cornel West is one of America's most gifted and provocative public intellectuals, and the author of the new memoir, Brother West. Harvey Cox is the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard and the author of the bestselling The Secular City, and, most recently, The Future of Faith. Acclaimed novelist Mary Gordon leads the reader on a personal journey through the Gospels in her new memoir, Reading Jesus. At Boston Book Festival 2009, Christopher Lydon hosted a conversation on life and faith with these distinguished guests.