Join us for an evening with Tom Harpur interviewed by CBC Metro Morning’s Mary Wiens.

Following the extraordinary and ongoing success of his 2004 book The Pagan Christ, scholar and author Tom Harpur was deluged with reader requests to go more deeply into the mythological, allegorical approach to the story of Jesus he took in that bestselling book. In Water Into Wine, Harpur sets out the powerful and transforming message that emerges when the Gospels are finally read as they were originally intended to be and as they were understood by the first Christians, such as Origen and Clement. Seen in their true mythological and symbolical meaning, the stories in the drama of Jesus’s life come alive in a totally fresh way–not as the account of a single, distant god-man working strange miracles like Superman or some fictional magician, but as a description of the evolution of the soul in every one of us. The theme of the Gospels parallels exactly the theme of the Old Testament, as well as every ancient sacred text, which is that a spark of the divine spirit incarnates in each and every human being. Tom Harpur shows how “the old, old story” is at the heart of every religion and how it is really our own personal story too. Water Into Wine is a tour de force written by a skilled and learned communicator that should excite and nourish every true seeker after spiritual fulfillment. As well, it has the enormous potential for furthering the goal of global understanding and peace.

Tom Harpur, columnist for the Toronto Star, Rhodes scholar, and former Anglican priest and professor of Greek and New Testament at the University of Toronto, is an internationally renowned writer on religious and ethical issues. He is the author of nine bestselling books, including For Christ’s Sake, The Pagan Christ and Would You Believe? He has hosted numerous radio and television programs, including Life after Death, a ten-part series based on his bestselling book of the same name, and a twelve-part television series based on his bestseller The Uncommon Touch: An Investigation of Spiritual Healing.

Mary Wiens is a producer for CBC Radio One in Toronto. Her work can be heard on Metro Morning.