Recently my friend Angela called me in tears. Angela, 31, and her husband have been married for three years, and they are very well-suited: They can spend...
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Between Heaven and Mirth By James Martin, SJ (HarperOne, 2011) Perhaps I am not the best person to review this book. Although not completely humorless, I have...
People who think of “liberation theology” as a 1960s fad should get to know Fordham University Professor Michael Lee, one of a new generation of...
The history of African American Catholicism began with the arrival of the Spanish settlers in the 16th century in Florida. In fact, on the first page of the...
Learning to Die in Miami By Carlos Eire (Free Press, 2011) In 1962 Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children evacuated from Cuba by Catholic parents who believed...
The Harrow & The Harvest Gillian Welch (Acony Records, 2011) Gillian Welch has described the 10 songs on The Harrow & The Harvest as “10 kinds of...
February 2012: A Dangerous Dozen: 12 Christians who Threatened the Status Quo But Taught Us to Live Like Jesus By the Rev. Canon C.K. Robertson, PhD Foreward...
During Christianity’s earliest centuries, an era of official persecution of Christians, church and state were not only separate but opposed. Then in the...
“Lead us not into temptation.” Christians have prayed these words so many times, it’s easy to slide over their meaning, but they are a bit curious...
Our American Spirit is stuck–and I’m not talking about that intangible dimension of our national identity that keeps us upbeat and confident in...
