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Barbara Crooker’s newest work, The Book of Kells, braves overtly Christian topics and fresh poetic forms with the confidence that comes from a sure and supple imagination. Meditating on the medieval manuscript, a treasure of Christian iconography, Crooker excavates ancient truths that provoke our modern sensibility.
Quick! You get to meet a living legend! Who will it be? Sidney Crosby? Pope Francis? Today I’d pick Marilynne Robinson, but in my 20s it would have been Richard Adams, whose bestselling, 1974 novel Watership Down was recently adapted into a miniseries on Netflix.
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Katie Munnik’s first novel is a compelling debut. Spanning wilderness settings from Scotland to Canada, the narrative laces the history of three generations of women, exploring motherhood from WWII to the present.
If Thea could read this, she’d object. She’d laugh and tell me that our friendship was mutual; I brought things to her life, too. She was completely humble that way. She’d be the first to deflect attention from herself and point out that whatever talents and energy we have, we must use them to Creator God’s glory and for our neighbours’ benefit.
From the front of the church I see my family sitting around the table together. I pass the bread and wine. I belong.
Leyland Fields’ voyage is the catalyst for novel insights into discipleship, insights drawn especially from her working life on the waves. Her visit to the Jordan River crystallizes the book’s theme: “What is the power of this water and this place? Who is this man Jesus?”
The Confessions of X by Suzanne Wolfe, CT’s 2017 Book of the Year in the fiction category, taps into Augustine’s influence from an altogether different perspective, one narrated by his anonymous concubine, the woman “torn from my side,” whom he dearly loved.
Four and a half hours later these tired men would climb out of their trenches into snow and sleet and German artillery fire. I think about Great-uncle Tom among them.
Cathy Smith’s farewell column.
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