I was introduced to writer Brian Doyle only a year ago. I blame this on the fact that I’m a convert, not a cradle Catholic. In many ways, I think God was...
Books and literature
Read The Moment of TendernessBy Madeleine L’Engle (Grand Central Publishing, 2020) “The world had changed all of a sudden and it wasn’t hers anymore.” Little...
The Catholic Church is often referred to as a “big tent” under which people of all backgrounds and perspectives can gather together in faith. In the literary...
Read The Least of These By Carla Swafford Works (Eerdmans, 2020) “The apostle Paul does not have a reputation for caring about ‘the least of these,’ ”...
“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” This was James Baldwin’s incisive critique on the pretty words of white people, especially white...
Read Spiritual Conversations with Children By Lacy Finn Borgo (InterVarsity Press, 2020) Imagine what it would have been like if someone had asked you...
When I sit down to read a poem, I am brought out of myself and into a different vision of the world. Whether through meter, rhyme, metaphor, or even just line...
The books I’ve read to my kids over the years bring back warm memories—everything from Goodnight Moon to Peter Rabbit to The Wind in the Willows. I knew...
I took a class on “ecowriting,” and the first assignment was to pull some weeds. It was an unseasonably hot and humid October, so I chose not to pull the weeds...
Outside of the Claretian community, probably the only awareness of Aquilino Bocos in the United States or other English-speaking countries is that he was made...
