Books

Beyond the debate between science and religion

A review of Matt Beynon Rees’s “The Samaritan’s Secret”

Elaine Showalter s book is a delightful literary voyage guided by a woman who truly knows the territory Neither an anthology nor an academic critique it is something quite original the first informed popular literary history of American women writers It was inspired by a question this distingui

Alan Wolfe’s ‘The Future of Liberalism,’ reviewed

On Reconciliation and Peace in the Holy Land

Now that the baby boom generation is reaching retirement age its members must come to terms with death s new proximity Parents are dying cherished friends are dying The public figures who loomed so large for so many years are dying Not that this is a surprise The World Population Clock tells us

Covering this topic is like writing about the 1936 Berlin Olympics by now the participants are all dead and anyhow none but a handful of stars Jesse Owens Pablo Picasso are known outside the fan base rdquo Like track and field events the doings of painters actors and writers seem rather tri

Many authors have addressed the tricky subject of forgiveness The 2007 book Amish Grace How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy offered a particularly insightful account of how the Amish forgave the gunman who shot 10 schoolgirls in Nickel Mines Pa Now Paula Huston has written a worthy addition to t

James V Schall S J a well-known Jesuit political theorist who teaches at Georgetown University is the author of numerous books on political thought philosophy and education His newest book The Mind That Is Catholic is a learned insightful and stimulating collection of previously published

The church as a people of the bread: an ecclesiastical study