The Strength of Her Witness: Jesus Christ in the Global Voices of Women Edited by Elizabeth Johnson (Orbis Books, 2016) “What difference do women’s voices make...
Books and literature
Catholic book reviews, author interviews, and reflections on literature, faith, and culture. Dive into thoughtful Catholic perspectives on literature.
No Crystal Stair: Womanist Spirituality By Diana L. Hayes (Orbis Books, 2016) Diana Hayes’ new book is a compilation of essays, prayers, and reflections...
Never Can I Write of Damascus By Theresa Kubasak and Gabe Huck (Just World Books, 2016) News from Syria over the past several years has been anything but good:...
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...
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...
