John le Carré, who died earlier in December, was a wildly popular spy novelist—and one of the English world’s finest fiction writers of the last half-century.
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Review: What does the future of the church hold? Look to China.
A new book of essays on the Catholic Church in China ably captures the evolving turmoil the church faces in a complicated situation.
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Our divided world needs a new kind of radical love. St. Benedict can help.
Benedict’s rule—particularly the commitment to stability—offers a way of communal life that can accommodate difference and authentically renew any culture in which Christians find themselves.
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Review: Just war theory is out. Gospel nonviolence is the right way to go.
Arthur Laffin, a longtime peace activist and practitioner of Gospel nonviolence, addresses the threat of nuclear war—and what should be done about it.
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Review: A new theology to serve a world in need of decisive action
David Tracy’s two-columns collection of previously published essays present a compelling argument for the value of theology in today’s troubled world.
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Life can be painful, but it is not without hope.
Anglican theologian and biblical scholar N. T. Wright argues that the only way to real understanding is the revelation of God in Jesus Christ.
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Review: Yaa Gyasi’s fully human characters
Come to Yaa Gyasi’s fiction, all you who are weary and burdened, and she will give you heartbreak.
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Review: Life is dull. Enjoy it anyway.
Anne Tyler’s new novel can help us realize that life often is not spectacular or about jumping from one big event to the next.
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Review: Marilynne Robinson returns to Gilead
Those familiar with the Gilead story will find in Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel another beautiful meditation on grace operative in spite of habits of despair and the social sins that feed them.
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Los Angeles: a city of faith, beauty and pain
A longtime historian of Los Angeles explores and deconstructs the mythical city of boosters, developers and “perpetual reinvention.”