The movie Hillbilly Elegy arrived in theaters just a few days after the 2020 presidential election was decided. It started streaming on Netflix two weeks later...
Books and literature
If I ever wanted a project to succeed and bear much fruit, it’s this one. And if there’s such a thing as an evangelical Catholic, Father Mike Schmitz is one. I...
Read Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents By Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020) Caste. For most Americans, the word seems foreign. This is because it...
Read Missionaries By Phil Klay (Penguin Press, 2020) Before turning to full-time writing, Phil Klay put in more than a year’s service with the U.S. Marine...
I first encountered the concept of the Catholic imagination at university. Writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, and Flannery O’Connor captured my...
Read American Harvest By Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf Press, 2020) “All discussions of food and agriculture begin with the land,” writes Marie Mutsuki...
The Vatican Christmas Cookbook By David Geisser & Thomas Kelly (Sophia Institute Press, 2020) In the first month of the COVID-19 lockdown, sales of King...
Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future Pope Francis (Simon & Schuster, 2020) Pope Francis’ Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future (Simon &...
When Ann Patchett wrote the memoir Truth & Beauty (Harper Perennial) about her 17-year friendship with brilliant, troubled Lucy Grealy, Clemson University...
Looking for a meaningful gift for kids and teens this Christmas? Christmas may be just around the corner, but there’s still time to find something that will...
