Mary Gordon illuminates the literary works of Thomas Merton
Mary Gordon — novelist, memoirist, professor of English at Barnard College — has long proved herself to be a Catholic voice engaged in deep and nuanced dialogue with the Church....
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Christian Wiman’s memoir reflects on years as editor of Chicago-based Poetry magazine, plus Anne Lamott, Elaine Pagels
“He Held Radical Light” by Christian Wiman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 128 pages, $23 The epigraph, perhaps, whispers the secret of what’s to come in the pages of poet Christian...
Powerful collection from MLK’s pastor — fitting for our current political moment — leads roundup review of spiritual books
“Sermons on the Parables” by Howard Thurman, edited with an introduction by David B. Gowler and Kipton E. Jensen, Orbis, 208 pages, $25 Howard Thurman, pastor to Martin Luther King...
How to talk about God, and more, addressed in this week’s spiritual book roundup
“Learning to Speak God from Scratch” by Jonathan Merritt, Convergent, 256 pages, $15.99 Here’s a subject not often found on the religion bookshelf: linguistics. As in “sacred language” or “Godspeak,”...
Jimmy Carter’s latest book, ‘Faith,’ leads this week’s roundup of spiritual books
“Faith” by Jimmy Carter, Simon & Schuster, 192 pages, $25.99 As the early pages of Jimmy Carter’s “Faith: A Journey for All” unspool, it doesn’t take long to get lulled...
Retro cookbooks offer comforts from another era for these uncertain times
It’s the culinary equivalent of climbing creaky stairs into the attic, lifting the lid of a cobweb-laced trunk and extracting pages that crumble into flakes of times past, as if...
Spiritual book roundup: ‘Dangerous Mystic’ and more reviewed
“Dangerous Mystic” by Joel F. Harrington, Penguin, 384 pages, $30 There is a particular rootedness, a depth of nuanced clarity, that is the heart of biography: to place a historically...
Appreciate the great outdoors this summer with these nature books
While the rest of the world hauls out beach chairs that fold like aluminum origami and satchels sagging with plot-thick page-turners, some of us prefer to string a hammock between...
‘Everything Happens for a Reason’ and more reviewed in this week’s spiritual book roundup
“Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved” by Kate Bowler, Random House, 208 pages, $26 Only in the steadiest of hands could the chronicle of a young...
‘To Hear the Forest Sing’ by Margaret Dulaney and more in this week’s spiritual book roundup
“To Hear the Forest Sing” By Margaret Dulaney, Listen Well, 252 pages, $15 A fine way to encounter the musings in this first collection from Margaret Dulaney, a playwright who...