Are you looking for a challenging, provocative, and inspiring read for your Lenten journey this year? I highly recommend the newly published work, Can I Get a Witness? Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders, And Agitators for […]
Category: Book Review
Risking Our Significance: A Review of Polarization in the U.S. Catholic Church
When I was a high school campus minister, I had several students who would come into my office and ask: “I have this friend who is gay, but their church tells her it is a […]
Welcome to Advent 2015
I just finished reading West Virginian writer Ann Pancake’s 2007 novel Strange as This Weather Has Been. I cannot recommend it enough—especially for the season of Advent. The novel tells the story of a modern-day […]
Married in Mission: A Handbook for Couples in Cross-Cultural Service– A Book Review
In the wake of the Bishops’ synod on the family, let me direct your attention to a document written for married people by a married person–more specifically–for married couples venturing into cross-cultural mission. Married in […]
Book Review: Catholic Women Speak
Catholic Women Speak Network, Catholic Women Speak: Bringing Our Gifts to the Table (New York: Paulist Press, 2015). As I sit to write this review, the World Meeting of Families is underway in Philadelphia, and […]
Book Review on “Structures of Grace: Catholic Organizations Serving the Global Common Good”
Kevin Ahern, Structures of Grace: Catholic Organizations Serving the Global Common Good (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2015), pp. 224 Nearly half the world – over three billion people – live on less that $2.50 a […]
Finding Joy in Pope John XXIII
Looking for a last minute Christmas gift idea for an informed Catholic? If so, you might consider a fun—yet insightful—book about Saint John XXIII by Br. Mickey McGrath, OSFS, a skilled illustrator and artist. This […]
Ten Recommended Books for Catholic College Students
To be frank, this post comes from the confluence of three things. First, there’s a meme going around the old Facebook where those who are tagged are asked to name 10 books that have had […]
A Soul Possessed Entirely by God
“I’ve been thinking of how far a soul can ascend if it lets itself be possessed entirely by God” -Oscar Romero Over my spring break last week, I started reading Archbishop Oscar Romero: A Disciple […]
Dating and Dating God
When I first offered to review Dan Horan’s Dating God a couple months back, in my mind I had anticipated doing a more or less traditional book review: give an overview of the basic goal […]
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