Book Reviews

Hands touching, background of sunset (Unsplash/Alonso Reyes)

Three books about peacemaking offer solidarity, solace and hope

Nov 28, 2020

Review: The Linn family's encounter with active nonviolence, poems by Lawrence Joseph about struggling with God and self, and a collection of stories from those who seek peaceful solutions to violence make up this fall's books roundup.

Protesters gather at a June 4 demonstration in downtown Detroit following the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis May 25. (CNS/Detroit Catholic/Valaurian Waller)

Memoir recognizes need for more than talk about racial reconciliation

by Diana L. Hayes

Nov 21, 2020

Book review: In Becoming Brave, Brenda Salter McNeil traces the journey of realization that came to her after 30 years of teaching and working in the field of racial justice.

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., returns to her office at the U.S. Capitol in Washington Feb. 5, the day of U.S. President Donald Trump's acquittal in the U.S. Senate. (CNS/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

'Pelosi' biography chronicles wins and losses, not her inner workings

by Dana Greene

Nov 14, 2020

Book review: NCR readers who might be eager to know how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's faith — Pelosi is a committed Catholic — and actions intersect, will be disappointed, but Molly Ball's Pelosi confirms the speaker's contribution to American history.

Pfc. Raymond Rumpa of St. Paul, Minnesota, in Mỹ Tho, Vietnam, a Viet Cong base camp burning April 5, 1968 (National Archives/U.S. Army/Dennis Kurpius)

Book chronicles reckless courage of Catholic resistance to Vietnam War

by Marie Dennis

Nov 7, 2020

Review: Activist Ted Glick rightly recognized that most people today know very little about what the Catholic left did during the Vietnam War. We can learn from evaluating different nonviolent strategies in our current context.

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Three books about peacemaking offer solidarity, solace and hope

Memoir recognizes need for more than talk about racial reconciliation

'Pelosi' biography chronicles wins and losses, not her inner workings

Book chronicles reckless courage of Catholic resistance to Vietnam War

Author offers insight into 'the why of my body'

Old case, new look at systemic racism

'Everyone Leads' calls baptized to step up

Dorothy Day biography raises universal questions

Staying power: a poet’s place in God’s agenda

Sweeping claims flood Chaput's 'Strange Land'

Secretary strengthened FDR's presidency

Book on Church of Antioch provides view to alternative versions of Catholicism

'Invisible Bestseller' goes on the road to find the Bible

Collection tells early American religious history

Never too busy to make time for God

Thanks to Joan Kroc, hamburger billions went to charity

Patriarchy, not nature, makes women unequal

Setting the Patty Hearst record straight

Essays knit modern motherhood to ancestors

Reviving the nuclear arms consciousness

Armenia, Syria, the United States: stories of freedom

Future of religious life lies in communal soul-searching

Race and sovereignty, a story of the body

Today's golden calf: consumerism as religion

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