Category: Brief Book Review
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Brief Book Review: God’s Call is Everywhere
MICHAEL PLEKON — For anyone concerned with the lives and work of religious women, this is “must-read,” “must-have” volume. It is a singular resource, a collection of research findings on women religious in recent years.
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Brief Book Review: Memory Eternal
TEVA REGULE — The author grounds her work in an understanding of death and grief as unavoidable parts of our human existence and puts them into conversation with the life of the Church.
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Brief Book Review: The Catholic Spiritual Journey
ANNE KOESTER — James Bacik mines the riches of the Catholic spiritual tradition to shed light on modern experiences.
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Brief Book Review: Seeing God
MELINDA A. QUIVIK — “The practical effect of not seeing God or apprehending divine care of creation is, of course, the climate chaos we are experiencing today.”
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Brief Book Review: Religion, Race, and COVID-19
JULIA A. UPTON, RSM — This collection of eleven important interdisciplinary essays should be read by anyone in active ministry who is concerned about the intersection of religion and race and disturbed by the health inequities and racism laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Brief Book Review: Preaching in the Light of the Word
KATHARINE E. HARMON — “In this collection of papers, experienced preacher and homiletics teacher, Rev. Michael Connors, CSC, assembles a diverse group of preachers, practitioners, and theologians to explore the ministry of preaching.”
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Brief Book Review: Church of Our Granddaughters
TEVA REGULE — “This work speaks to the need for discernment when encountering tradition and its ongoing reception for today.”
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Brief Book Review: Just Church
AMANDA C. OSHEIM — “Zagano asks the important question of how Catholic social teaching (CST) applies not only ‘beyond’ the church, but also within the church. ”
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Brief Book Review: Passions of the Soul
MICHAEL PLEKON — “What follows is not at all a “how to do it” course, the sharing of particular practices for moving toward freedom. Rather Williams takes us to the traditional list of the passions that enslave us and from which we need to detach, literally become apathetic–letting go of the pathos in each.”