For the Yale Center for Faith & Culture’s year-end round-up, Drew Collins picked Letters to a Future Saint as his book of the year, and had these words to say about it:

“I’ve never finished C.S. Lewis’ Mere Christianity, because every time I’ve started, I meet someone who seems to need it more. On three separate occasions, I’ve made it about halfway through and then felt compelled to give it away—to a friend, a taxi driver, and someone sitting next to me on a plane. Letters to a Future Saint is one of those books. Simply but powerfully written, filled with empathy and hope, it is East’s account of what it means to follow Jesus, written from a ‘fellow pilgrim’ to a ‘future saint.’ Halfway through it, I felt that same old conflict—to finish or to give away? Thankfully for me (and sadly for the person sitting next to me on the flight back from Switzerland), I finished it.”