Our latest feature reviews, which cover the very best new books.
Feature Reviews
Jonathan Safran Foer – Eating Animals [Review]
Putting Meat in the Middle of the Plate of our Public Discourse. A Review of Eating Animals Jonathan Safran Foer. […]
Ched Myers and M. Colwell – Our God is Undocumented [Feature Review]
A Promise Even Greater than that of Lady Liberty A Featured Review of Our God is Undocumented: Biblical Faith and […]
Julia Spicher Kasdorf – Poetry in America [Featured Review]
Reflecting on Nostalgia, Loss, and Flight A Featured Review of Poetry in America Julia Spicher Kasdorf Paperback: U of Pittsburgh […]
Crafting a Rule of Life – Stephen Macchia [Review]
Crafting a Rule of Life would be an effective adult education study, seasonal endeavor, or personal exercise in pausing to organize one’s thoughts and feelings around a central calling from God. While it provides a taste of Benedictine thought, the Rule of St. Benedict is not the featured flavor of the month. Instead, it is a quiet, historic partner in the background and is accompanied by other classic and traditional flavors meant to provide accompaniment for a modern person of faith’s journey.
Pam Hogeweide – Unladylike [Feature Review]
“The insistence to relegate church roles based on gender, rather than gifting has meant the minimizing of untold numbers of women solely because of their femininity.” So says writer Pam Hogeweide, both from personal experience and from hearing the stories of many other women. Those are the stories she tells in Unladylike: Resisting the Injustice of Inequality in the Church.
