A Single Day of Peace

Stephen D'Angelo's 2021 novel — winner of the PenCraft Book Award in Christian Nonfiction — takes an unusual structural approach: it embeds 50 guiding life principles inside a fictional journey between corporate New York and the Catholic Church. Thirty years leading global software organizations give D'Angelo's business-world observations real weight, and the faith dimension is front and center rather than decorative. For Christian readers who want a book that takes both career and spiritual life seriously, it delivers. The caveat worth noting is that the fictional frame is thin — the story exists primarily as a vehicle for the 50 principles, so readers expecting a fully realized novel will find the narrative somewhat spare. As an inspirational book with a light story wrapper, it earns its award.