The church can hear the stories of women who have chosen to follow their call to the priesthood through ordination, thanks to the new book Women Called to Catholic Priesthood: From Ecclesial Challenge to Spiritual Renewal.
In While I Breathe, I Hope, theologian Richard Gaillardetz chronicles his own process of dying of pancreatic cancer in reflections that address hard questions about the meaning of death, healing and the afterlife.
In The Dreadful History and Judgement of God on Thomas Müntzer, Andrew Drummond paints a picture of a complicated society struggling with economic inequality just as much as, if not more than, issues of doctrine.
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.
