In his most affective and affecting epistle St Paul wrote to the Philippians ldquo I give thanks to my God for all my memories of you rdquo Phil 1 3 Paul rsquo s eucharistic remembering came repeatedly to mind while reading the Rev John Jay Hughes rsquo s lovely and moving autobiography No

The Crusades are typically thought of as the wars between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East that occurred during the 12th and 13th centuries While this was their most famous manifestation it was not the only one They also involved conflicts against the Moors in Iberia heretics in souther

Mary Oliver rsquo s newest book The Truro Bear and Other Adventures Poems and Essays will certainly please connoisseurs of her work and will likely win her new readers as well The 35 poems and prose sketches in the collection that have been previously published present themselves as familiar fri

Kathleen Norris' 'Acedia & Me,' reviewed

Richard P. McBrien's 'The Church,' reviewed

This new selection of C S Lewis rsquo s letters on spiritual matters makes good reading even for someone already conversant with Lewis rsquo s life and work Compiled by the longtime Lewis scholar and enthusiast Paul F Ford Yours Jack is reader-friendly The subtitle suggests that the collectio