The Hero and the Whore: Reclaiming Healing and Liberation through the Stories of Sexual Exploitation in the Bible asks readers to shed the patriarchal lens through which most of us have read and studied the Bible.
Book review: Marilynne Robinson's generous vision of God suffuses Reading Genesis, casting her gaze beyond religious platitudes and secular objections and insisting on the fundamental goodness of God and us humans.
Beyond Scripture, few books demand we "take up and read." Fr. Tomas Halik's The Afternoon of Christianity: The Courage to Change may just be one of those books.
In her new book Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley centers Black emotions, experiences, memories and bodies in every prayer, mantra and poem.
In While You Were Out, Meg Kissinger, for many years a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative journalist, probes the mental illness and shame underlying her '60s upbringing as one of eight children in suburban Chicago.
Encountering Artificial Intelligence is evidence that Catholic theologians and philosophers, among others, aren't quite willing yet to cede the field and retreat into merely historical studies.
In 'The Modern Saints: Portraits and Reflections on the Saints,' artist Gracie Morbitzer shares images of "these role models who have come before us, who have shown us that there's not only one way to be a Christian."
Though devoid of aggrandizing war-story fare, the opening pages of James Kearney and Bill Clamurro's story is set in 1971 combat, as a wounded Kearney is offloaded into the hands of his eventual co-author, Clamurro.
