Book review: In My Life With the Jedi, Eric Clayton carves out a niche not just for Catholics and geeks, but for anyone looking for a fresh, personal, action-oriented boost to their spiritual life and practice.
The central tension found in "Dune: Part Two" is that of faith and fundamentalism, tackled by director Denis Villeneuve with both epic scale and heartbreaking intimacy.
Second- and third-generation immigrants are less concerned about how much to hold onto their culture. This tends to go hand-in-hand with the loss of faith, and it creates larger scale secularization.
Viewing "Africa & Byzantium" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Centore was "aware of the human dimensions" of the objects and people used them, he writes.
"Eternal You" looks at the industry of the digital afterlife. Filmmakers Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck interview CEOs and others behind companies such as one that claims to simulate a text-based chat with the deceased.
While reductive narratives depict priests as perfect heroes or evil villains, truth is more complicated, says Fr. Stephen Fichter, writer and producer of the streaming movie "Trinity's Triumph."
In her new book Black Liturgies: Prayers, Poems, and Meditations for Staying Human, Cole Arthur Riley centers Black emotions, experiences, memories and bodies in every prayer, mantra and poem.
In While You Were Out, Meg Kissinger, for many years a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel investigative journalist, probes the mental illness and shame underlying her '60s upbringing as one of eight children in suburban Chicago.
"Carol & The End of the World" is an adult animated dystopian show that effectively asks viewers to consider what they would do with just one year to live — and, by extension, how they really want to live today.