Toward the end of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, Odysseus (played by Matt Damon) utters a despairing line clearly influenced by a Talmudic aphorism that’s...
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The Seagull on the Chapel By Eric A. Clayton and Shannon K. Evans, illustrated by Angela Edmonds (Paraclete Press, 2026) Only recently did I learn that two of...
The Harbingers Created by Gabriel Urbina (Audacious Machine Creative, 2026) What would you do if magic were real? This is the central question that animates...
Convent Wisdom By Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita (Simon & Schuster, 2025) Since I find inspiration in the devotion and ministry of women religious, I was...
In Thomas of Celano’s book The Remembrance of the Desire of a Soul, which was completed in 1247, Francis and a companion were traveling when they came upon...
Nothing’s About to Happen to Me Mitski (Dead Oceans, 2026) The cover of singer-songwriter Mitski’s new album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, features the...
How does the world see Bernadette Soubirous, also known as St. Bernadette of Lourdes? With a new musical about her touring the United States after a successful...
How quickly we’ve forgotten the early days of the COVID pandemic: the fear, the rising death toll, the uncertainty, the international lockdown, the suffocating...
Discipline By Randa Abdel-Fattah (University of Queensland Press, 2025) Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Discipline takes place in Sydney, Australia over a few days in...
The Way of Dante By Richard Hughes Gibson (InterVarsity Press, 2025) Around the middle of the twentieth century, three English writers—C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L...
