In City as Playground, Leadership Foundations has curated a compelling collection of insights by pastors, practitioners, theologians, organizers and activists across a spectrum of religious traditions.
Sociologist Allison Pugh explores this "connective labor" — work that "involves 'seeing' the other and reflecting that understanding back" — in her new book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.
In her new book, In the Shadow of Freedom: The Enduring Call for Racial Justice, Black Catholic author Alessandra Harris argues that the United States is still not necessarily a place of freedom for all.
Carl Siciliano is an inspiration, but his book Making Room is not a fairytale where the knight in shining armor rides in to vanquish what threatens the village. As Carl learns, the hero of this story is the community.
In the real world, as in Lowry's fictional creations, there are not always easy answers. But there remain questions worth asking — and books worth reading.
No Bullet Got Me Yet is a collection of letters written by, to and about Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and army chaplain in the Korean War. Kapaun died at POW Camp 5 in May 1951 and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Barack Obama in 2013.
In Pox Romana, author Colin Elliott looks at the effects of the Antonine plague on the Roman Empire and the place held by Christians in the tumultuous society.