Barbara Mahany

Rather than klonking anyone over the head with straight-up God talk, the late Brian Doyle — credited with a lead role in the resurrection of spiritual writing in 21st-century America,...

It's not hard to imagine dead silence on the other end of the line when Timothy Egan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author, dialed up his literary agent and sketched...

Sister Helen Prejean is known as the nun from New Orleans who wrote prayerfully and piercingly about witnessing death-row electrocutions in a Louisiana prison. That her book about her experience,...

In "A Living Gospel," Robert Ellsberg has written perhaps the most essential illuminant for these darkening times. No farther than the introduction one realizes the uncanny hold of Ellsberg's fine-grained...

To enter the pages of Christine Valters Paintner's "Dreaming of Stones" feels akin to wandering the undulations of Celtic wilds, the barren landscape that cloisters timeless secrets and truths. It's...

When Michael Muhammad Knight — whom The Guardian of London has called "the Hunter S. Thompson of Islamic literature" — set out to teach a religious studies seminar on classical...

There are those for whom summer reading is synonymous with plot-thick page-turners, guzzled beachside or poolside, covers splattered with sunscreen. For others, the indolent season takes an opposite tack: It's...