Book Reviews

Book interweaves eucharistic practice with social, economic and ecological realities

Jul 8, 2020

Book review: The broken food system and the environmental crisis require us to reembrace the Eucharist as a vital meal fellowship. This includes recognizing ourselves as a community, called together to act against the world's political and social evils.

New book urges white Christians to assess their 'abuses of faith'

by Robert Shine

Jul 1, 2020

Book review: The book takes down a number of the personalities, institutions and structures of white Christian nationalism that led to President Donald Trump's election and who pose a continued serious threat to multiethnic democracy in the United States.

'The Ethics of Encounter' makes Catholic social teaching more accessible

by Kelly Stewart

Jun 24, 2020

Book Review: The author argues that Catholic social teaching offers invaluable resources for navigating contemporary social problems and building what he calls a "culture of encounter" in a country beset by individualism, social division and unjust hierarchy.

A couple walks through the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. (Wikimedia Commons)

Author Susan Neiman examines Germany, Dixie and 'comparative redemption'

by Jason Berry

Jun 10, 2020

Book review: Navigating between Germany's reckoning with Nazism and the reactionary grip of Southern myth, Learning From the Germans tells the stories of people facing a historical memory they want to change.

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Book interweaves eucharistic practice with social, economic and ecological realities

New book urges white Christians to assess their 'abuses of faith'

'The Ethics of Encounter' makes Catholic social teaching more accessible

Author Susan Neiman examines Germany, Dixie and 'comparative redemption'

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

Bios of Dr. Seuss, Mr. Rogers explore their creators' commitment to kids

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