Learning to see Girard as an “unlikely apologist” for the Christian story does not undermine orthodox faith—it is an extremely viable path forward.
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‘Chaos Monkeys’ peers through the opacity of online advertising
With a sense of itself as the future of humanity, Facebook proves to be no ordinary company. When you’ve got a billion users, Martínez points out, it doesn’t matter if your advertising model is enormously flawed.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Why we need Catholics telling stories in every possible way
So what defines a Catholic novel? I am still struggling with that question. But I know that that which asks most of us is most worthy of us.
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From stenographer to author to icon: Jane Jacobs’ tremendous career and legacy
As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”
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Are religion and spirituality separate realities?
Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.
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Questions of creation, guilt and reconciliation render this art heist story practically perfect.
Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.
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Is there life after college?
The book offers detailed guidance on managing decisions a potential college student must make: whether to go to college right after high school, where one should attend and how to find internships along the way.
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William Lynch took philosophy out of the academy.
Lynch possessed a deeply incarnational spirituality and criticized religion understood as mere assent to transcendent meaning.
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Praying with Bruce Springsteen
Helpless Catholic that I am, I have a confession to make. I am a Bruce Springsteen devotee.
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“The Secret Life of the American Musical” is as entertaining as it sounds.
Viertel tells many backstage stories about how the directors and composers managed to avoid a disaster, sometimes only a few hours ahead of opening night.