When the Disney movie Frozen was released in 2013 it didn’t take long before my daughter was singing every song from the movie. After hearing the movie’s...
Books and literature
When Time magazine and the New York Public Library compiled their lists of great children’s books, authors notorious for their Christian motifs—like J. R. R...
Flipping through the pages of Melissa Musick and Anna Keating’s The Catholic Catalogue : A Field Guide to the Daily Acts That Make Up a Catholic Life, I...
Good Girls, Bad Girls of the New Testament By T.J. Wray (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016) Rooted deeply in Christian theology, T. J. Wray’s Good Girls, Bad...
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings By Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2015) The Inklings—who included J. R. R...
Reconsidering Intellectual Disability By Jason Reimer Greig (Georgetown University Press, 2015) In early 2004, Ashley’s parents faced a difficult decision...
The St. Teresa of Avila Prayer Book By Vinita Hampton Wright (Paraclete Press, 2015) Teresa of Avila was a 16th century Carmelite nun, mystic, and reformer of...
Song of a Christian Sufi By Marietta Bahri Della Penna (Anamchara Books, 2014) Is it possible to be both Christian and Sufi? Marietta Bahri Della Penna proves...
In 2012, exactly two weeks after Trayvon Martin was shot to death for being young and black and wearing a hoodie, I sat in a dark theater watching children as...
“Glory be to God for dappled things.” So begins “Pied Beauty,” a poem by 19th-century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem praises God with the...
