Learning to see Girard as an “unlikely apologist” for the Christian story does not undermine orthodox faith—it is an extremely viable path forward.

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.

Seekers of spirituality and meaning exist everywhere, in and out of religion, and Haight wishes to reach them.

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.

As one reviewer observed, “She began by writing about sidewalks and finished with an account of Western civilization itself.”

Told in alternating chapters, the lives of painter, collector and forger blend and echo in ways that none of them could imagine.