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The Quest for Certitude

This peppery work of apologetics is brief but covers a lot of ground William O rsquo Malley S J is shaped by 40 years of teaching at the high school and college level and currently teaches at Fordham Preparatory School in New York City His approach reminds me of C S Lewis rsquo s observation

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Dont Bother About Thrills

This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio

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God-Attentiveness

For many readers Jim Forest is inextricably connected to The Catholic Worker movement which he joined in 1961 when he was a part-time student at Hunter College and after his discharge from the U S Navy as a conscientious objector In his earlier books he has written well about Dorothy Day Thomas

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Beyond the Self

I owe a great deal to Henri J M Nouwen His writing which I first discovered in the 1970 rsquo s helped clarify the spiritual life for me I continue to read and profit from his books and recommend them to others Oddly I felt a certain trepidation about this posthumous work on spiritual direct

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