Book Reviews

Book on Civil War era activists has parallels to present moment

Feb 19, 2020

It will strike astute readers as unsurprising (and dispiriting) that today's critical questions surrounding gender and race were even more urgent for radical reformers throughout the 1800s.

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Book review: Researcher interviews struggling pornography users

by Bill Tammeus

Feb 12, 2020

Book review: Samuel L. Perry conducted lots of interviews, which make up the most interesting part of this work; we get to hear from real humans who've been using pornography and who are wrestling with feelings of guilt and sin because of it.

Books on impeachment may both trouble and reassure President Trump

by Timothy Kelly

Feb 5, 2020

Given its rarity and proven inability to dislodge sitting presidents, it may be surprising to find several books on impeachment in recent years. Such is the nature of Donald Trump's presidency that many authors deemed it necessary to write these books.

Richard Holbrooke biography is fraught, but enlightening

by William O'Rourke

Jan 29, 2020

George Packer's portrait of the legendary diplomat and ambassador is fueled by extensive research as well as a "friend's" personal knowledge, putting it on the cutting edge of the new modern biography.

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Book on Civil War era activists has parallels to present moment

Book review: Researcher interviews struggling pornography users

Books on impeachment may both trouble and reassure President Trump

Richard Holbrooke biography is fraught, but enlightening

Meticulous scholarly book on women's role in early church has a few sketchy claims

New book on Charleston massacre depicts agonizing struggle to move on

New book on liturgy synthesizes theology and sociological research

New biography of Thomas Berry reasserts importance of his work

Shaping the early Christian church, Paul came before the Gospel writers

Breaking through oaths of secrecy at the 2013 conclave

Rich portrait of a social change agent in biography of Grail leader Anne Hope

Oil rule America: New book details competing theological visions of US energy capitalists

Rwandan memoir recounts couple's harrowing tale

Lenny Duncan, Lutheran pastor, calls on Christianity to revolutionize

'Dear Joan Chittister' shares women's correspondence with Sister Joan

Clearer Vatican II vision

Evangelical women do balancing act in public life

Nouwen a witness to committed priestly ministry

Carolyn Forché brings us back to pre-war El Salvador in new memoir

Vulnerable, courageous, prophetic: Van Hagen's book inspired by awe

O'Malley finds new insight putting three church councils side by side

Family abandonment features in three new memoirs

Sr. Ilia Delio's 'Birth of a Dancing Star' memoir is about discovering God in the chaos of life

Theologian Catherine Keller sees a path from apocalypse to transformation

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