Was Ernest Hemingway’s lifelong subject a study of saintliness? A new book on his religious faith provides ample evidence of that.
Ron Hansen
Ron Hansen is a novelist and a professor at Santa Clara University.
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‘Becoming the writer-monk’: Mary Gordon on Thomas Merton
The fascinating premise of Mary Gordon’s lovely little book On Thomas Merton is that, except for his extensive correspondence with Evelyn Waugh and Czeslaw Milosz, Thomas Merton was without literary peers who could perceptively judge, critique and improve his writing.
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What can we learn from blind Bartimaeus?
We collaborate with God’s grace and find conformity with Christ, by acknowledging our creaturehood, our temptations, our distractions and expectations, our doubts, our grudges, our compulsions, and by allowing “Christ to pray for us, with us, and in us.”
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A journey through the Holy Land with Catholic novelist Ron Hansen
Why Ron Hansen will never read the Gospels the same.
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Fatherless Son: Andre Dubus III on his absentee father
Ron Hansen reviews Andrew Dubus III’s memoir of his absentee father
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Friendship, Rivalry, Redemption
Gail Godwin writes with the shrewdness and wit of Muriel Spark and a tender, fetching, Southern voice.
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A Path Made Straight
A frankly confessional memoir from a Catholic author and journalist
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Dramatic Faith
In late October 2004 James Martin S J an associate editor of America got a surprise phone call from the actor Sam Rockwell Sam was developing his role as Judas for an Off-Broadway production of a new play 8220 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot 8221 by Stephen Adly Guirgis Because Sam was