Or/And By Jeannine Marie Pitas (Paraclete Press, 2023) “Plato’s Symposium did not quite get it,” writes Jeannine Marie Pitas. “We are not severed eight-limbed...
Books and literature
Tell Her Story By Nijay K. Gupta (InterVarsity Press, 2023) In the foreword to Nijay K. Gupta’s Tell Her Story, historian Beth Allison Barr describes how...
All Oppression Shall Cease By Christopher Kellerman, S.J. (Orbis, 2022) At the beginning of social healing is truth-telling. This involves the true stories of...
Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide By Adam Bucko (Orbis Books, 2022) Let Your Heartbreak Be Your Guide is arriving at the right time. The pandemic made...
Remembering Why We Preach By Karla J. Bellinger and Michael E. Connors, C.S.C. (Ave Maria Press, 2022) How can preaching foster encounter between God and a...
A Theology of Migration By Daniel G. Groody (Orbis Books, 2022) A Theology of Migration: The Bodies of Refugees and the Body of Christ achieves a balance that...
I love Holy Week. With its processions, readings, incense, colors, and music, it is the most theatrical time of the liturgical year, when each of us can step...
The following is an excerpt from The Habit of Poetry: The Literary Lives of Nuns in Mid-century America (Fortress Press, May 9, 2023) “You hold me only when...
Regenesis By George Monbiot (Penguin, 2022) George Monbiot’s central contention in this disturbing and bracing book is that farming is slowly killing the...
Jessica Pegis is an author based in Toronto. In her debut novel The God Painter (Stone Table Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2021), Toronto writer Jessica...