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About the Book
During World War II, four chaplains were assigned to the SS Dorchester
with more than 900 men on board. Alexander Goode, a Jewish rabbi; John
Washington, a Catholic priest; George Fox, a Methodist minister; and
Clark Poling, a Baptist minister, all offered comfort, reassurances, and
prayers along with a warning from the captain that a German submarine
was hunting their convoy.
Thoroughly researched and told in an engrossing nonfiction narrative, this true story alternates between accounts told from the perspective of the Nazi U-boat captain and his crew (as found in their journals and later interviews) and survivors from the Dorchester who credit the four chaplains with saving their lives after their ship was torpedoed.
The celebrated story of the men who became known as the Immortal Chaplains is now joined for the first time in print by the largely untold story of another hero: Charles Walter David Jr. A young Black petty officer aboard a coast guard cutter traveling with the Dorchester, Charles bravely dived into the glacial water over and over again, even with hypothermia setting in, to try to rescue those the chaplains had inspired to never give up.
Page-turning and inspiring, The Immortals explores the power of both faith and sacrifice and powerfully narrates the lives of five heroic men who believed in something greater than themselves, giving their all for people of vastly different beliefs and backgrounds.
Thoroughly researched and told in an engrossing nonfiction narrative, this true story alternates between accounts told from the perspective of the Nazi U-boat captain and his crew (as found in their journals and later interviews) and survivors from the Dorchester who credit the four chaplains with saving their lives after their ship was torpedoed.
The celebrated story of the men who became known as the Immortal Chaplains is now joined for the first time in print by the largely untold story of another hero: Charles Walter David Jr. A young Black petty officer aboard a coast guard cutter traveling with the Dorchester, Charles bravely dived into the glacial water over and over again, even with hypothermia setting in, to try to rescue those the chaplains had inspired to never give up.
Page-turning and inspiring, The Immortals explores the power of both faith and sacrifice and powerfully narrates the lives of five heroic men who believed in something greater than themselves, giving their all for people of vastly different beliefs and backgrounds.
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About the Author
STEVEN T. COLLIS is a storyteller at heart. He is also a law professor
at the University of Texas School of Law and the faculty director of
Texas’s Bech-Loughlin First Amendment Center and Law and Religion
Clinic. Previously, he was the Olin-Darling Research Fellow at the
Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and chair of the
Religious Institutions and First Amendment Practice Group at Holland
& Hart LLP. He is an engaging and sought-after speaker nationwide on
religion and law. Steven received his MFA in creative writing from
Virginia Commonwealth University and his Juris Doctor from the
University of Michigan Law School. He is the author of Deep Conviction: True Stories of Ordinary Americans Fighting for the Freedom to Live Their Beliefs. He and his wife have five children and reside in Texas.
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