Book Reviews

New book by Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa talks Ignatius, individualism

Jun 19, 2021

Book review: In the interviews, Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa kindly and straightforwardly explains the Ignatian charism that has freed so many men and women to bring the Gospel to so many persons in so many ways.

Sue Monk Kidd's new novel imagines Jesus' life and fictional marriage

by Diane Scharper

Jun 12, 2021

Book review: In her fourth novel, The Book of Longings, Sue Monk Kidd embellishes the Gospel story of Christ by giving Jesus a wife named Ana. But her book, just out in paperback, should not scandalize most readers. Nor has it been banned by the Catholic Church.

Adam and Eve are depicted in a stained-glass window at St. Nicolas Church in Feldkirch, Austria. In "The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth," historian Beth Allison Barr writes that "Biblical womanhood is Christ

Beth Allison Barr's new book a look into complementarianism

by Nyasha Junior

Jun 5, 2021

Book review: The Making of Biblical Womanhood is both a selective church history focused on women's subordination, and a memoir that chronicles the author's movement away from the theology of her conservative evangelical church.

A group of Florida migrants are photographed in 1940 near Shawboro, North Carolina, on their way to Cranberry, New Jersey, to pick potatoes. (Library of Congress/FSA-OWI Collection/Jack Delano)

New book calls for 'reverse migration' of Black Americans to the South

by Diana L. Hayes

May 29, 2021

Book Review: Charles M. Blow's thoughtful, challenging book recounts the Great Migration and its impact on the South. He calls for a return of Blacks to the South to reclaim our lost political heritage.

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New book by Jesuit Fr. Arturo Sosa talks Ignatius, individualism

Sue Monk Kidd's new novel imagines Jesus' life and fictional marriage

Beth Allison Barr's new book a look into complementarianism

New book calls for 'reverse migration' of Black Americans to the South

Historian explores what global weather changes mean for faith communities

Marc Lamont Hill's 'We Still Here' calls Christians to action

20 years later, what can Russo's 'Empire Falls' teach us about Catholic faith?

Future tech requires regulations and balanced ties to creation, author says

20 years later, 'The Body Artist' feels not merely relevant, but essential

Tentler's 'American Catholics' book is a reliable, entertaining history

New book uses faith to tackle social, cultural factors behind eating disorders

Stephanie Phillips documents the evolution of Solange Knowles

What Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower' can teach Catholics

No free will, no ideas: Physicist Brian Greene reduces everything to 'particles and fields'

Catholics who care about US Black history must read 'Four Hundred Souls'

Feeling weary and brokenhearted this Lent? Read this book on suffering

Why believers and unbelievers must read Fr. James Martin's new book on prayer

Despite its flaws, biography adds to our understanding of Malcolm X

Patricia Lockwood's novel explores how we live our lives online

Biography explores 'subversive' Christianity of novelist Dorothy Sayers

New book says 'unalienated labor' is what makes art, art

'Tornado God' takes on relationship between divinity, nature, humanity

Book on Brooklyn's 'giglio' feast highlights Catholic male devotion

New book tells how priest, laypeople worked for justice in South Bronx

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