For Theirs Is the Kingdom

For Theirs is the Kingdom by Christopher Carlisle, Ben Cabot, a millennial Boston lawyer is in the midst of personal crisis, when he is sent to Montreal for eighteen months to advise the Bishop of the Anglican Church. The bishop asks Cabot to review his legal rights to stop a metro stop and shopping mall from being built underneath the cathedral. While involved with the church, Cabot asks the Bishop about an outdoor community he has seen after dark in the streets of Old Montreal. Next, Cabot encounters its mysterious cleric, Luke Hale. This renegade priest inspires Cabot to set out to explore his own spiritual journey through the privileged life he is living. But when an American rector becomes Dean of the cathedral money and greed jeopardize Hale's community, Cathedral in the Night. Through this journey, Cabot comes to question the church's commitment to the poor, and confronts the loss of his country's moral compass. Paperback, 174 pages.