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'

Manifesto challenges 'cybernetic totalism'

Book uncovers hidden moral complexities

Author examines ethical terrain of the 'robotic moment'

Gaza doctor strives for peace, human dignity despite personal losses

Difference fundamental to our world

Insight on our addictions, both visible and subtle

Book explores religions and the significance of difference

The Peace Corps at 50 years old

The age of wisdom

Diaries highlight the daily ingenuity of the world's poor

Escape from poverty is the great exodus of our time

Flash points in sex and gender

Urgent tasks for church renewal

Popes and the devil of inner absolutism

Book on Vatican finance is uneven, but worth a read

The church's cardinals were scholars, pastors, saints, sinners

Obama: not a leader or decider, but a deliberator

Principles collapse when victory is the goal

New data for the debate about God

Liturgy as theater melds myth into history

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