Heartland is a chronicle of lives and places; a story of the women and men on the lower end of the working class in rural Kansas who nurtured, challenged and continue to inform Sarah Smarsh’s story.
Books
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Learning to be Quiet with Tomie dePaola
Tomie dePaola speaks with America executive editor Kerry Weber about his latest book “Quiet” and what he hopes children will learn from his work.
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Review: The famous Weegee, up close and personal
“People who have never heard of Weegee can describe him,” Bonanos writes, because he created Hollywood’s idea of the newspaper photographer.”
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A new academic opus from a once-familiar name: Foucault
The major foci of Foucault’s work were the histories of madness, the social sciences, penitentiaries and sexuality.
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Tomie dePaola’s books help us find the sacred in stories of service and stillness
Many of dePaola’s most delightful characters are those who persevere in the worthy effort to simply be themselves.
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Review: Chicago’s lay Catholics and civil rights
Karen J. Johnson focuses on the minority of white Catholics who felt that racial equality was a moral and religious, not merely political, issue.
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Review: Negotiating tensions in a postsecular world
The Catholic Church needs to recognize that moved from a secular public sphere—marked by separate and specialized spheres of economy, science, faith and so forth that manage their own concerns in an insular way—to a postsecular public sphere, in which a multiplicity of voices and expertise are welcome to weigh in on an issue.
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The Gospel According to John Kerry
The story of Kerry’s faith journey is among the most evocative parts of the new memoir by the former Democratic presidential candidate and secretary of state.
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The Burden of Suffering, the Weightiness of Love: Kate Bowler and Theodicy
Kate Bowler’s memoir is an elegant theodicy exactly because it is not an explanation. It is a story of human suffering. It is the account of a human person who believes and struggles in her belief as she tries to appropriate the depths of suffering in the midst of an illness that may end her life.
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Review: New ‘Little Women’ adaptation is the same old tale, poorly told
While readers have found these characters relatable and inspiring since Little Women’s publication, the modern March family vacillates between forgettable and unlikeable.