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...
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Islamophobia By Jordan Denari Duffner (Orbis Books, 2021) With the publication of Islamophobia, Jordan Denari Duffner makes an important contribution to an...
Dark in Here The Mountain Goats (Merge Records, 2021) The sweeping new release by alternative band the Mountain Goats is infectiously upbeat despite its title...
Happier Than Ever Billie Eilish (Interscope, 2021) “I’m getting older, I think I’m aging well” slinks the 19-year-old Billie Eilish as she opens her sophomore...
Sweet Tooth Developed by Jim Mickle (Nightshade, 2021) Kids in cages. A global pandemic that kills millions. Exhausted doctors and caretakers. Fearful people...
This Sunday, Kanye West released a new album, Donda, named after his late mother, Donda West. It’s been teased for weeks through massive livestreamed and in...
The Diary of Jesus Christ By Bill Cain, S.J. (Orbis Books, 2021) Rather than seeing the imagination as something childish or illusory, St. Ignatius of Loyola...
Born in 1897, Catholic Worker cofounder Dorothy Day lived from the dawn of the U.S. empire in the Spanish-American War to the November 1980 election of Ronald...
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...
All the Beauty in this Whole Life Brother Ali (Rhymesayers, 2017) You’d be hard pressed to find an article about Brother Ali that fails to mention his unique...