My Room in the Trees The Innocence Mission (Badman, 2010) On the Innocence Mission’s most straightforward folk album yet, Karen Peris sings of seasons...
Arts & Culture
Explore Catholic arts and culture through critical reviews, interviews, and essays, on creativity, beauty, and faith.
Embraced by God: Facing Chemotherapy with Faith by Steve Givens (Twenty-third Publications, 2010) I have never physically met Steve Givens but we have been...
The Bible’s Best Love Stories by Allan F. Wright (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2010) When it comes to love stories, I’d be willing to bet that the...
The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See by Richard Rohr (Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009) At the outset of life, God unites body and soul and...
The Gaslight Anthem (Side One Dummy, 2010) If your idea of rock and roll requires three-chord guitars, bass and drums, and a dead-earnest sense of commitment...
When the Claretians started printing a magazine 75 years ago, they couldn’t have imagined Internet publishing, let alone web 2.0 tools and social...
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion By Gregory Boyle, S.J. (Free Press, 2010) While reading the stories of the “homies” that Father Gregory...
Olivia and the Little Way by Nancy Carabio Belanger (Harvey House Publishing, 2008) Olivia and the Little Way is a delightful children’s novel about...
Directed by Lee Unkrich (Disney/Pixar, 2010) In the third chapter of Pixar’s saga about a boy’s toys, the plastic and wooden playthings that fill...
Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years By Diarmaid MacCulloch (Viking, 2010) Haters of history often ask the point of knowing names and dates, pointing...
