Edna O rsquo Brien had a dream In it she is a very young girl on her way to school when she trips and falls on the road gashing her forehead open Out spills her brain which becomes a spinning top that passers-by young and old dance and trample upon Reality for O rsquo Brien has proved far les

Readers looking for a nice conventional story about serving others and how fulfilling that can be must look elsewhere Jay Sullivan rsquo s Raising Gentle Men Lives at the Orphanage Edge is real and serving others is complicated Sullivan spent two years between undergraduate and law school teach

ldquo In our era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action rdquo That claim by Dag Hammarskj ld is borne out in the books published in the series ldquo Orbis Modern Spiritual Masters rdquo The authors of these paperbacks are people of action whose holiness-spiritual

In his very first sentence Denys Turner professor of historical theology at Yale University tells us that in his portrait of that most Catholic of Catholic philosopher-theologians St Thomas Aquinas 1225-74 ldquo I have not until undertaking this work given more careful consideration to an i

During the hearings preceding the confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice of the United States Senator Charles Schumer asked ldquo What kind of justice will John Roberts be rdquo Roberts himself suggested that he wanted to be known as a modest judge a judge who respected precedent and ap

This short book makes available for the first time in English a series of articles in French compiled in 1958 by Albert Camus from his writings on Algeria from 1939 to 1958 Camus was born and raised in Algeria a pied noir a member of the minority European community his family of humble backgroun