Hayao Miyazaki’s films teach an essential lesson: Give the world something beautiful
Hayao Miyazaki’s influence is so massive that it’s hard not to understate it.
Review: Walter Brueggemann on what the Bible really says about our political culture
In ‘Ancient Echoes,’ the highly respected Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann provides a provocative set of essays that provides a useful treasury of biblical texts potentially relevant to contemporary political discussion.
Review: Evaluating our militant empire
In ‘War Made Invisible,’ Norman Solomon examines the variety of ways we are so often uninformed or misinformed by our mass media’s coverage (and non-coverage) of wars and their legacy of destruction.
Review: Abdulrazak Gurnah on war, chance encounters and destiny
Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for ‘Afterlives,’ which was not published in the United States until 2022.
Review: Jill Lepore’s reasons to panic (or not)
In ‘The Deadline,’ Jill Lepore uses her deep historical knowledge to ground the reader in truthful analysis, synthesizing complex ideas into their most digestible form.
Review: The examined life in the eternal city
Like much of Liam Callanan’s fiction, ‘When in Rome’ hints at the action of divine grace in people’s lives and how the protagonists come to understand and appreciate its beneficence.
Review: A meditation on faith
in his 2008 book, Tomáš Halík calls on the church to provide “dressing stations” for the wounded. Halík’s book is now available for the first time in an English translation by Gerald Turner as ‘Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation.’
Turning Seventy-Five
an instant sharp pain somewhere near the heart and sudden ringing in the ear when no bell tolls
The Death of Cicero
His servants pulled him through the postern gate To ride in shadows to a waiting ship
Returning to the Source: Enriching Lent by entering into the Gospel
The most difficult task of a Christian involves that of being a living exemplar of the virtues present in Jesus. The Lenten season can be a gift in continuing this process of personal transformation.