The Rising of Bread for the World Book Tour
featuring Art Simon

This fall, Rev. Art Simon, the founder and president emeritus of Bread for the World, will travel across the United States to talk about his new book The Rising of Bread for the World: An Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger. Read the reviews.

Art will share the surprising story of how God uses ordinary people to make an extraordinary difference in the lives of hungry people. Join us in a city near you to hear him  talk about his new book and reflect of his decades of advocacy for hungry people.

With both humor and insight, Art recounts how he and his older brother Paul, the late renowned Senator from Illinois, grew up and began their remarkable careers. In the 1970s, Art served as a Lutheran pastor in New York’s Lower East Side. He brought together Catholics and Protestants in an organized effort to urge Congress to address the root causes of hunger. Today, 35 years later, Bread for the World is the nation’s foremost Christian voice against hunger.

He’ll share this amazing story—and talk about why urging our nation’s decision makers to end hunger at home and abroad is as important now as ever.

Read the Reviews

• From Pulpit to Policy, Souls to Stomachs: Bread for the World Founder Reflects On Life, Mission by Greg Gaudio (The Washington Post, August 13, 2009)
• Pastor laments hunger's profile by Julia Duin (The Washington Times, August 6, 2009)
• Review: The Rising of Bread for the World: The Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger by Karl Boehmke (Thursday Theology, August 6, 2009)
• The Rising of Bread for the World: An Outcry of Citizens Against Hunger (Publisher's Weekly, June 8, 2009)