Jerry Garcia might not strike one as the most likely of priests…but to his fans and generations of listeners, he was indeed an oracle and a prophet.
Literature
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Review: Jamie Quatro and the end of the world
In her second novel, Jamie Quatro considers the destruction of worlds—both on a macro and on a personal scale.
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Francis Schüssler Fiorenza and how theology can engage with modernity
Francis Schussler Fiorenza, who died on July 23, will be remembered as a trusted teacher but also a pioneer in academic theology’s engagement with a post-Vatican II church.
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Review: With God at Walden Pond
In ‘Thoreau’s God,’ Richard Higgins takes the reader on a fascinating journey through Thoreau’s extensive work, looking at the ways the philosopher thought about the divine and the human relation to the divine.
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From high-brow classics to beach reads: 100 years of book recommendations from America magazine
The editors of ‘America’ have been opining on what you should read for over a century. Some of their suggestions have aged better than others.
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Non-fiction can wait. It’s time to enrich your life with a novel.
Many of my acquaintances have given up “reading about something that didn’t happen.” But fiction has long-term and concrete value, both mentally and socially.
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Why the moon turns our thoughts to God
It has been 56 years since humankind went to the moon—but it’s still on our minds.
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The atomic nightmare turns 80: How Catholics reacted to the arrival of nuclear bombs
July 16 marks 80 years since the first atomic bomb was detonated. The specter of nuclear annihilation has been with us ever since.
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T. S. Eliot can be intimidating. You should still read his poem ‘Marina.’
Whenever I teach a seminar on T. S. Eliot’s work, I spend the first day of class on ‘Marina.’
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Anne Carr, the ‘founding mother’ of Catholic feminism in academia
A leading figure in academic Catholic feminism after the Second Vatican Council, Anne E. Carr was also a renowned scholar and an inspiration to generations of theologians.