Is the Gospel a Fairy Tale?
Marina Warner has written an intriguing book, Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale (Oxford: 2014, 201 pp.). The book plunges...
What Pocahontas Found in Heaven
Most people these days know something about Pocahontas. Some even know the true story of her conversion to Christianity, and perhaps of the catechetical...
Let’s (Txt?) Talk: Reclaiming Conversation
Perhaps you heard them discussing it on the radio: MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle’s new book, Reclaiming Conversation (Penguin, 2015, 436 pp.). The discussion caught...
Current Reading: From Michelangelo to Elizabeth Warren
“What are you reading now?” someone asked.
Here’s a summary:
Michelangelo: His Epic Life, by British art critic Martin Gayford (London: Penguin, 2013, 662 pp.,...
Barbara Kingsolver’s Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior: A Novel. New York: HarperCollins, 2012. 437 pp.
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Barbara Kingsolver is a fine writer. One can learn a lot about writing...
Howard Snyder’s Summer Reading List
You’ll remember Howard Snyder from his book review of “Thinking Fast and Slow” that appeared on the Seedbed Feed back in February. Here he...