Recently Published Books Archives

Brief Book Review: The Truth Will Make You Free

November 13, 2019 Alan Hommerding 5_ Brief Book Review Recently Published Books

[T]his book will be highly informative and useful for anybody who is involved in the work of evangelization in today’s U.S. parishes or dioceses.

Brief Book Review: The Crisis of Bad Preaching

November 6, 2019 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books

While “telling the story” is a key component of good preaching, it is always a challenge to find the right story and to tell it in a way that evokes wonder and response.

Brief Book Review: A Living Gospel

October 30, 2019 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books Saints / Mary

The stories [of Holy Lives] invite readers to reflect on their own lives and see where the “living gospel” has been written.

Brief Book Review: The Catholic Church in a Changing World

October 23, 2019 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books Vatican II

[A] very successful and balanced effort to connect [a] variety of topics to the Council’s treatment of the Church in two key constitutions.

Brief Book Review: Songs as Locus for a Lay Theology

October 16, 2019 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books

As much as many of us are inclined to resist it, “popular” religious song has the power to shape the faith of a community and religious tradition.

Brief Book Review: Saving Images

October 9, 2019 Other Voices Brief Book Review Recently Published Books

A very good summary of Lathrop’s project of arguing that the gospels are always presenting us with images that call for the reform of our assemblies.

Review Essay: Political Orthodoxies

October 3, 2019 Other Voices Ecumenism Good Read Recently Published Books

“Most of the “unorthodoxies” Hovorun examines in this book are prominent dysfunctions or misuses of religion in the modern period, notorious ones at that.”