Our sacred authors frequently present their readers with concrete examples of people they can imitate. They presume certain men and women through the centuries have embodied specific characteristics that set them apart as God’s followers, traits we’re expected to make our own.
SUMMONED FROM THE MARGIN: HOMECOMING OF AN AFRICAN
By Lamin Sanneh
Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, $24
Where do you go when you are looking for God? Do you go to a church? Do you find God there in the silence among the worn pews and the scent of flowers and incense? Perhaps you find God in nature’s cathedral -- in the quiet forest, or the regal mountains, or by the sea. Some find God in between the notes of a symphony; others in the mysterious maze of a labyrinth. Others find God in the complexity of the sciences, in biology, chemistry, physics. Still others experience God’s presence in the rhythm of a well-turned phrase or in a majestic hymn.
SHE WHO IMAGINES: FEMINIST THEOLOGICAL AESTHETICS
Edited by Laurie Cassidy and Maureen H. O’Connell
Published by Liturgical Press, $29.95
THE UNBEARABLE WHOLENESS OF BEING: GOD, EVOLUTION, AND THE POWER OF LOVE
By Ilia Delio
Published by Orbis Books, $22
This is not beach reading.
Opinion: Although I am angry at the hierarchy who close authoritarian ranks and hurt our church, I believe there are more of those stories to be written.
Essay: Any parish is a mix of people at various stages of their lives and a variety of emotional states. Like any family.
Column: It was Groucho Marx who had it right: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
The gap between poor and rich Filipinos is widening, and church leaders would like to see the government put priority on agrarian reform.
Members of Congress left a host of urgent issues unresolved: immigration reform, the farm bill, and the "grand bargain" of a budget.
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