Thomas Berry’s legacy for a rising generation of eco-theologians and ethicists is pervasive.
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Review: Exploring sanity, sexuality and motherhood in mid-20th century Hollywood
Religion and spirituality are at the center of Anne Enright’s exceptional new novel.
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Review: Gentrifying tragedy on intellectual whim
Terry Eagleton’s new book on tragedy can be a difficult read.
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Review: What would Jesus say about white privilege?
Khyati Y. Joshi’s new book shines “a light on Christian privilege and its entwinement with White privilege.”
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Review: A Bronx tale
John D. Feerick’s memoir engages important chapters in American urban, intellectual and legal history.
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From novelist Peter Quinn, a world-weary, unmistakably Catholic detective
A reader familiar with New York-based Irish American writer Peter Quinn’s work can be forgiven for identifying the novelist with Fintan Dunne, the central character in three of his four period-piece novels.
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Review: A meditation on dementia and loss
Drawing on her years as a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain, Lynn Casteel Harper asks the reader to reconsider much of the stigma—and terminology—that we place on people diagnosed with dementia.
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Review: A book that will challenge your views about affirmative action
In his new book, Melvin Urofsky, an emeritus professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of numerous books, details the critical issues around affirmative action in the United States.
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Review: A military veteran’s critical (and empathetic) account of the War on Terror
Erik Edstrom, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, tries to explain what our recent wars have meant to the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bud Selig, baseball and leading with integrity
The behind-the-scenes story of Bud Selig’s tenure as commissioner of Major League Baseball.