The Search for God and Guinness

This is an unusual book. The book is mostly concerned with illustrating, through the story of both the Guinness company and the lives of the members of the Guinness family, that people can use their secular positions to do work that they feel called to do. The Guinness company and family have been strong advocates for civil rights (in Ireland they advocated for Catholic rights from the very beginning although the family has been Protestant all along), anti-poverty programs, public health for their own workers and the communities where the company worked and explicitly Christian causes. There is a real story here, although Mansfield at times seems to veer into hagiography.

I have a longer review on my blog at http://bookwi.se/the-search-for-god-and-guinness-a-biography-of-the-beer-that-changed-the-world/