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June 2016

June 09, 2016

Us Versus Us: A Q&A with Author Andrew Marin

"I'm more concerned with working towards dialogue that actually promotes a shift in social engagement and relations...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Tasting God: A Q&A with Ginny Kubitz Moyer

"Take a moment to run through the five senses: Where did you see God today?...

February 2016

February 22, 2016

40 Days of Decrease: A Different Kind of Lent Book

Lent is a partisan animal. How much we pay attention to it largely depends on...

February 02, 2016

Five Reasons There’s No Getting Past Religion

By David Dark Author, Life's Too Short to Pretend You're Not Religious Five Reasons There's...

October 2015

October 06, 2015

On Dying Well: A Q&A with Author Janet Wehr

"Perhaps the best gift of all that has come to me in my hospice work...

September 2015

September 30, 2015

Where Jesus Prayed: A Q&A with Danielle Shroyer

"I wanted people to see this book as a way of imagining the Lord's Prayer...

September 18, 2015

Stripped: A Q&A with Heather King on Cancer and her Catholic Faith

"I didn’t see my cancer a blessing—please!—but I did see it as a mystery. To...

September 15, 2015

At the Intersection of Cancer, Culture and Christ: 15 Years Later

[Editor's Note: As part of this month's Book Club on the memoir Stripped: At the...

September 01, 2015

What’s The Cause Church? A Q&A with jKonrad Hölé

"Church is detrimental to the individual cause, because too much of current day church postures itself as...

July 2015

July 16, 2015

Coming Home: A Q&A with Author Star Chang

"I walked through the way of Jesus, the way of Buddha, the way of Plato...

July 09, 2015

Moving Toward Divinization: A Review of ‘Broken Gods’

By Wendi Matusic Broken Gods, a new book by Gregory Popcak, an internationally recognized expert in Catholic pastoral...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

Jane Eyre’s Sisters: A Q&A with author Jody Bower

"We’re still living in a male-oriented world, although it’s changing, and one thing that’s helping...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Finding Sanctuary: A Q&A with Spiritual Director Terry Hershey

"Sanctuary is not a 'program' or a 'project.' Our western mindset can see sanctuary as...

February 2015

February 27, 2015

Frank Rogers’ Practicing Compassion: A Book Review

This is a text that is, at the very least, a reminder of the value...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

Figuring Out Life with a God Who Hides: A Review of Tony Kriz’s “Aloof”

In our hiking adventures, my wife and I have seen a number of different animals...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

Heaven’s Muscle: A Q&A with Author Bren Hughes

"My mission is to encourage people to love in spite of their pain, to sense...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

Atheist Awakening: A Q&A with Researchers Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith

"By “awakening” we mean that atheists and even agnostics are becoming more public about their...

November 14, 2014

The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: A Q&A with Author Annie Kagan

"Remember, the light is always inside you. And every day, by remembering it, you feed...

November 03, 2014

Freedom and Resolve: A Q&A with Spiritual Teacher Gangaji

"It is essential to surrender our ideas of who we are to discover the truth...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Teach Us To Want: A Review

If, as Madeleine L'Engle has written, a book "can be a star, 'explosive material, capable...

August 04, 2014

On Praying with Beads: A Q&A with Author Kristen Vincent

"In the early church Christians used pebbles and stones to help them “pray without ceasing.”...

July 2014

July 31, 2014

How Oneness Changes Everything: A Q&A with Author Ratanjit Sondhe

"I realized that I was not the CEO, our values were our CEO. We made...

July 16, 2014

Teach Us to Want: A Book Review

In a culture where our wants and needs often become indistinguishable, God spends a lot...

May 2014

May 30, 2014

Got Religion? A Q&A with Naomi Schaefer Riley

"If you have been reading the surveys and looking around at your own congregation and...

April 2014

April 04, 2014

If I Had Lunch with C. S. Lewis: Asking the Big Questions

I’ll begin with a confession: I’ve never been able to “get into” C. S. Lewis....

April 01, 2014

Sharing a Common Faith: Reflections on Saffron Cross and Interfaith Marriage

My endorsement of Rev. Dana Trent’s wonderful new book, Saffron Cross, appears on the book’s...

April 01, 2014

Evangelizing in a Virtual World: A Review of Mediating Faith

When I was writing my doctoral dissertation on the impact of the Internet on practices...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Saffron Cross: An Interview with J. Dana Trent

This month at the Book Club, we're featuring a new book by Baptist minister J....

March 30, 2014

How to Survive Life (and Death): A Q&A with Robert Kopecky

Now featured in the Patheos Book Club: How to Survive Life (And Death): A Guide for...

March 27, 2014

On Discipleship and Christian Maturity: A Q&A with Ronald Rolheiser

Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity, by popular Catholic author...