Are you there God? It’s me, Dwight. ‘Soul Boom’ is Rainn Wilson’s new book about spirituality.
Rainn Wilson, former son of Wilmette, Illinois, and security guard at the Baha’i House of Worship on Sheridan Road, New Trier High School graduate, best known as Dwight Schrute on “The Office,” can bet what you’re thinking. He can see the eye rolls from California. He begins his new book expecting some skepticism: Why, in the name of Scranton, should you read a book by Rainn Wilson on the importance of spirituality in contemporary life?
As celebrity left turns go, it’s not Bruce Willis playing harmonica, or Gal Gadot trying to raise the spirits of mankind by singing “Imagine” on YouTube. But it does stop one short.
As does this:
By the time you’ve finished reading “Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution,” Wilson sheds all hesitations and proposes nothing less the fundamentals of a new faith.
As far as I know, not even James Franco planted the roots of an entire religion.
That’s not to suggest Wilson is a dabbler on the topic of spirituality. “Soul Boom” is his second book on the subject, after “SoulPancake,” which is the name of
