What makes a good baseball stadium? One that blends well into its urban fabric, creates intimate experiences and is architecturally pleasing.
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Review: Can you be a woman of both faith and feminism?
‘This is My Body,’ by Cameron Dezen Hammon, is a warning about how a feminist can fall prey to and rationalize the pervasiveness of misogyny, despite his or her best intentions.
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Review: Modern saint-making reflects contemporary Catholic identity
As Cummings notes, our future saints, some of whom have already passed beyond the veil, will disclose to us as much about ourselves and our church as they will about their own heroic virtue.
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On the road with Wendell Berry
The natural world is Wendell Berry’s primary teacher: its rhythms, its largesse, its mysteries.
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Review: Ann Patchett’s liars and questionable saints
In this book, Danny commits lies of omission as he does not tell his sister how much he hates their mother for essentially leaving them to whatever fate throws their way.
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Review: A brief life of John Henry Newman
In all, Father Collins understands Newman not as “a stainless saint,” but as a dutiful friend and a multifaceted defender of the Catholic faith.
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Review: A modern-day pilgrimage with Timothy Egan
The question of what a pilgrimage means in the modern day loops throughout Timothy Egan’s ‘A Pilgrimage to Eternity.’
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Herman Melville: obsessed by good, evil and ‘Moby Dick’
Melville, who was born 200 years ago this August, was consumed with the issue of humanity’s capacity for good or evil.
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Review: The unknown story of Czech priest, Tomáš Halík
This book, the story of a Czech priest working under communist oppression, constitutes a profound reflection on the 1989 collapse of communism and the liberation of the Czech people.
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Review: Are unions making a comeback? It’s complicated.
In short, Greenhouse argues, “Something is fundamentally broken in the way many American employers treat their workers.”