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Acclaimed journalist Dennis Covington examines how beliefs and violence condition our world. In war areas witnessing widespread issue, what makes life by any means worthwhile living? When chaos becomes a means of life in places where religious beliefs and violence intersect, what do people retain? If religious idea is, as Christopher Hitchens argues, the reason for wars and genocide, then is faith the treat? Dennis Covington pursued answers to these questions for years, traveling deep into places like Syria, Mexico, and the North american South. Looking not for rigid doctrines, creeds, or values - which, he says, can be contradictory, even dangerous - he looked for something bigger and even more fundamental: beliefs. It's beliefs in goodness, kindness, and the mankind of the tiniest moments that makes the most difficult times bearable. The young bomb sufferer who offers a teeth from his medical center foundation, the grieving father or mother who shares an image, the joined hands of men who were previously mortal foes, and Covington's own family turmoil. These are a few of the moments that leave him touching the beating heart of what it really is to live. Like Covington's broadly celebrated Salvation on Sand Hill, Revelation can be an intensely personal quest that would go to the ends of a world filled with violence and religious strife to find the enduring value of living.
