I was 2,400 miles away from the urgency, assault, and angst of my home, standing on my tippy-toes and a stool to reach the relics of a man who had inspired a...
Books and literature
The Making of Biblical Womanhood By Beth Allison Barr (Brazos Press, 2021) A professor of history at Baylor University as well as a pastor’s wife, Beth Allison...
“Black Lives Matter Madonna,” by Brother Mickey McGrath Madonnas of Color (Clear Faith Publishing) takes you on a rich journey of theological aesthetics...
Eleutheria By Allegra Hyde (Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2022) Allegra Hyde’s debut novel, Eleutheria, grapples with big questions about human hope and...
Swinging on the Garden Gate By Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew (Skinner House Books, 2022) I almost cried several times while reading Swinging on the Garden Gate. Not...
Who’s Black and Why? Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Andrew S. Curran (Harvard University Press, 2022) Anti-Black racism has an origin. “Race” and the...
Batter Up: Answering the Call of Faith & Fatherhood James R. Walters (New City Press, 2022) Now that I am a father of two young children, I see the world...
Catholic tradition has long been enriched by the work of men and women who turned to art as a means of coping with fear and loss. Dante’s Divine Comedy, and...
Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics By Karen Peterson-Iyer (Georgetown University Press, 2022) In Reenvisioning Sexual Ethics: A Feminist Christian Account, Karen...
Infinite Regress By Joshua Hren (Angelico Press, 2022) Novelist and poet Joshua Hren’s latest work, Infinite Regress, pits the existentialist’s nihilism...
