Tag: brief book review
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Brief Book Review: Truth’s Table: Black Women’s Musing on Life, Love and Liberation
CHELSEA BROOKE YARBOROUGH — This book calls people to listen to the musings of Black women as foundation for methodology and to consider the musings manna, something to heal, nourish, and fuel for the times ahead.
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Brief Book Review: Brothers and Sisters
MARK REASONER — This book provides clearly written responses to common questions about Paul and his letters, such as those related to a chronology of his life or what his attitude was toward women.
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Brief Book Review: Cultural Catholics
TIMOTHY BRUNK — Cultural Catholics is for readers who want to know more about those who attend Mass less frequently than once per month.
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Brief Book Review: When Prophets Preach
MELINDA QUIVIK — Augustine calls preachers to embrace the preachers’ role in conveying faith in its salvific, social, and civil capacities which means addressing real world problems that affect political matters.
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Brief Book Review: Mary & the Church at Vatican II
FR. DAVID ENDRES — Drawing on untapped materials at the Vatican Archives, Dr. Olsen offers a play-by-play of the debates surrounding Lumen Gentium’s chapter VIII (The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, in the Mystery of Christ and the Church).
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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.”