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The Ken Commandments: My Search for God in Hollywood

An E! News star mixes memoir and investigative journalism in his own version of A.J. Jacobs A Year of Living Biblically — chronicaling his own spiritual journey as he investigates the religious lives of the rich and famous in Hollywood.

Ken Baker, the L.A. based senior correspondent for E! News and E! Online, has worked in Hollywood for twenty years, hobnobbing with multimillionaires and interviewing movie and TV stars on a regular basis. In that time, and in the land of fairy tales and double-dealing, Baker had become, in many ways, one the materialistic, carnal people he never wanted to be, abandoning his Christian heritage and losing his spiritual center in the process. Finding himself alone and confused one night in Vegas, he has a spiritual awakening that puts him on a journey to find God, not only in himself, but in the celebrities who lives intersect with his on a daily basis.

In this book, Hollywood meets the spirit of A.J. Jacobs, as author Ken Baker sets off on an experiment that will bring him closer to the spiritual lives of the rich and famous and in the process help to reveal the light and dark of Hollywood in new ways. From New Age spirituality, to Bible-based Christianity, to Buddhist retreats, to meditation classes, to Atheism studies, to the mega-church of the nation's top TV preacher, Baker will immerse himself in a diverse range of spiritual practices side by side with the celebrity set, revealing a world that in deeper and more God-centered than you'd ever imagine.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 288
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780451497956
  • Genres
  • biography
  • Release date
  • 2017