The Monastic Heart By Joan Chittister (Convergent Books, 2021) In the sixth century, disheartened by the corruption and chaos of Rome, St. Benedict of Nursia...
Books and literature
Saving Grace By Kirsten Powers (Convergent Books, 2021) To say that grace is in desperately short supply in our public discourse is one thing. To delve into...
The Defiant Middle By Kaya Oakes (Broadleaf Books, 2021) Jane Goodall once said, “It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why...
Wholly God’s: Poems By Philip C. Kolin (Wind & Water Press, 2021) It has been said that the Eucharist is the most perfect metaphor because it is the only...
The Spiritual Work of Racial Justice By Patrick Saint-Jean, S.J. (Anamchara Books, 2021) “Jesuit Patrick Saint-Jean offers us a way to heal our battered...
My first encounter with Oscar Wilde was probably much the same as yours: I was assigned The Importance of Being Earnest in high school English class. I read...
Who am I going to be anymore? Antonia had asked. . . . No longer a teacher at the college, no longer volunteering and serving on half a dozen boards, no longer...
Called: A Memoir By Mark Redmond (Onion River Press, 2021) I cannot think of a better example of someone truly living their life’s vocation than Mark Redmond...
Islamophobia By Jordan Denari Duffner (Orbis Books, 2021) With the publication of Islamophobia, Jordan Denari Duffner makes an important contribution to an...
When searching the shelves for Bibles and gospel storybooks to share with children, we encounter shelves full of hundreds of brilliantly colored books with...