A new book argues that many historical figures who challenged cultural expectations can serve as spiritual models regardless of whether they were formally recognized by the Catholic Church.
In his new book A Time To Gather: How Ritual Created the World — and How It Can Save Us, Bruce Feiler argues for the importance of ritual, insisting that "doing is believing."
In Love Like a Mother, Elizabeth Berget claims that biblical texts, Christian history, art and women's lived experience are saturated with maternal imagery for God.
Jason Berry's goal in writing books about the Catholic clergy abuse scandal was to create "three-dimensional profiles, and a narrative line on people's lives in a clash with injustice and religious power."
NCR Book Club: Kate Ward's Making a Life expands commonly held understandings of work and reevaluates worker justice, looking at the whole person, not merely person-as-employee.
In 'Beyond Wellness,' religious ethics professor Liz Bucar makes the case for connecting yoga, meditation and other practices to their religious origins.
NCR Book Club:Riding Into History details Sarah Keys Evans' fateful bus ride from New Jersey to North Carolina in 1952 that led to the Interstate Commerce Commission's rejection of segregation on interstate bus travel.
In Jesus and Justice, co-authors John Dominic Crossan and Michael Okinczyc-Cruz combine lifetimes of study, reflection, organizing and service to provide us a framework for analysis and action.
