An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York’s Irish and Italians By Paul Moses (NYU Press, 2015) Al Capone, Mother Cabrini, Mayor Jimmy Walker, and...
Books and literature
When I was a college freshman—at the time a liberal arts major—my creative writing instructor told us that the way to learn how to write stories was to read...
In Robert Lupton’s follow-up to his popular Toxic Charity, the author weighs the future of effective efforts to reduce poverty. Echoing themes of his previous...
Thirty years ago, the fine theologian John Shea, teaching a course on redemption, introduced me to Flannery O’Connor’s fiction. I found her stories...
Universities regularly teach ethics across their curriculum and in graduate courses at professional schools, but as James Keenan writes, the university itself...
“Faith is a gift,” writes Dominican Father Gustavo Gutiérrez. “To receive this gift means putting oneself behind Jesus as he walks, putting his teachings into...
The Whale Chaser: A Novel By Tony Ardizzone (Chicago Review Press, 2015) The Whale Chaser begins and ends with a moment of transcendence: “The summer...
The Soul of a Pilgrim By Christine Valters Paintner (Sorin Books, 2015) Through a confluence of grace and timing, Christine Valters Paintner’s The Soul of a...
“That’s Jesus, Mama!” shouted my cousin’s exuberant daughter, Claire. Her mother was reading to her not from the gospels, but from the climactic scene of The...
Inventing a Christian America By Steven K. Green (Oxford, 2015) Teaching the history of religion I frequently have to wave my students off from...
