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.
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Review: A refugee’s big-hearted tale of building an American identity
This story of a Vietnamese immigrant growing up in the United States is constructed as a series of meditations on the lessons from great books that moved and instructed him.
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We need to teach more Black literature in Catholic schools
72 percent of students and 87 percent of teachers in Catholic schools are white. They need to be reading and teaching more Black literature.
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Hilary Mantel’s case against St. Thomas More
Mantel’s portrait of More is of a self-serving whiner with a death wish. But what must always be remembered is that she is creating fiction.
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Review: A look at the changing vocation of Catholic laywomen
“The Laywoman Project” is a book primarily about changing concepts of women’s vocation during that rapidly moving decade.
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Review: Annalena Tonelli, a humanitarian innovator
Annalena Tonelli moved to Kenya in her 20s to work as a teacher. Her desire was to live among the poor as one of the poor.
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Flannery O’Connor: A walking contradiction on race
Flannery O’Connor was, like many people of her time, “a walking contradiction when it came to matters of race.”