Anchors and foreign correspondents were familiar names when I began paying attention to the news as a young person during the 1980s. Brian Stewart stood out with coverage from far-off places like Ethiopia, Northern Ireland, Poland and Afghanistan. His reporting on The Journal went beyond sensational headlines, providing deeper insight into world events. References to…
British thinker and podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield has given the English-speaking world a gift via her first book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. This title comes from a quotation by St. Irenaeus, born in Smyrna (now Izmar) in AD 130: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” Oldfield explores…
The first way that many children encounter the Bible is through stories – concrete events that happen to a person of interest and that reveal something about all humans and about the God who created them. Even as we get older, the narrative parts of Scripture continue to resound in our lives. They may also…
August 11 marks one year since the death of the writer and ordained pastor Frederick Buechner. His spiritual memoir The Alphabet of Grace was originally presented as a lecture 54 years ago. What possible relevance could this slim volume of scarcely one hundred pages have? In this insightful and poetic memoir, Buechner writes about an…
Since December, I have been caught up in the Chief Inspector Gamache series by Canadian author Louise Penny. Of the sixteen titles in the series, I have completed ten so far. In the spirit of full disclosure, my reading order was dictated solely by their availability at my public library, whether in audiobook, hardcover, or…
While most people can relate to the idea that a book can be a companion, books can also act as companions to one another. In my role as a vice principal last fall, I observed an eighth grade teacher leading a study of a verse-novel that begins in war-torn Vietnam called Inside Out and Back…
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Medical doctor and psychologist Leonard Sax updated and revised Why Gender Matters in 2017, after its initial publication in 2006. The title itself is a lightning rod for controversy at a time when the prevailing cultural narratives state either that gender is irrelevant or that it is all-important with multiple carefully defined expressions.
“One Book” is a movement that started in Seattle, Washington back in 1998. Here the library selected a novel by Russell Banks entitled The Sweet Hereafter and promoted it as a book everyone in Seattle should read during that year.
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