“The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.”...
Books and literature
Read Broken Signposts By N. T. Wright (HarperOne, 2020) In Broken Signposts, N. T. Wright reveals fresh insights into the story of Jesus Christ in the Gospel...
Read The Great Belonging By Charlotte Donlon (Broadleaf Books, 2020) “The book you are holding does not aim to cure your loneliness,” states the foreword of...
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...
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...
