From nursery rhymes to fantasy anthologies, fill your shelves with stories to raise your children by. Several years ago I stood in a long line at the airport...
Books and literature
By Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2009) Titling this book A Saint on Death Row seems almost inevitably destined to provoke the ire of those who accuse...
E-books will change the way we read, but the digital future of fiction remains unclear. Oprah, the queen of book clubs, has blessed the Kindle, Amazon's...
By Barbara Brown Taylor (HarperOne, 2009) "If I had a dollar for every time I heard someone say ‘I am spiritual but not religious,' then...
By Paul Wilkes (Jossey Bass, 2009) In In Due Season, Paul Wilkes unpacks his story with a searing honesty that reveals a life filled with the cycles of finding...
Why Go to Church? The Drama of the Eucharist By Timothy Radcliffe, O.P. (Continuum, 2009) In the face of our “spiritual but not religious” and...
There are plenty of good reasons why a parish should have a book club and why parishioners should participate in one. Beyond the obvious benefits of...
From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the Eucharist By Edward Foley (Liturgical Press, 2008) Warning: If you read this book you may never look at a...
By Mark J. Allman (St. Mary’s Press, 2008) “Who would Jesus kill?” asks author Mark Allman in this introduction to Christian thought on the...
How much should we worry about the daily dose of interactive, virtual murder and mayhem in our kids’ lives? Video games first came to an arcade or home...
