Summer’s here, and we’re reading new books by women writers about God, communal religious practice, and the strangeness of American life at the margins.
A Czech priest and writer, Fr. Tomáš Halík served as a spokesperson for the church during the Velvet Revolution. His autobiography is now available in English.
Pentecost readings can lead to easy, watered-down homiletics about unity amid diverse peoples. In response to the killing of George Floyd, the church must do more.
Mary Ward’s trajectory proves an axiom in church history: it is often those who suffer humbly and patiently from the church’s contradictions who end up redeeming it.