Michael Leach
Michael Leach is publisher emeritus of Orbis Books. He has edited and published more than three thousand books. His authors include Nobel Prize winners, National Book Award winners, and hundreds of religion book award winners. In 2007 the Catholic Book Publishers Association honored Mike with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Dubbed "the dean of Catholic book publishing" by U.S. Catholic magazine in 2003, he has also authored or edited several books of his own, including Why Stay Catholic? which was voted the "Best Popular Presentation of the Catholic Faith" in 2012. Mike brings this background to his role as editor of NCR's Soul Seeing columns; Soul Seeing has won the first place award for "best regular spirituality column" from the Catholic Press Association for five years in a row. Michael is a frequent contributor to NCR's Soul Seeing column.
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It's not easy being an incredible shrinking man
The kingdom of heaven comes to our house
I ain't got no body, but somebody cares for me
Oh, life could be a dream, shaboom, shaboom
Bishop Morrie has a remembrance of things past
Life is all about getting up in the morning
'It's dark because you are trying too hard'
Marriage: two people 'in this thing together'
The surprising grace of Alzheimer's; even those who aren't caregivers can benefit from author's insights
It's OK to despair and swear at God
Paying taxes is petty change, Morrie says
Poetry is the best theology
Movies (and a TV show) that are good for your soul
'Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical'
The Bill Maher interview of Bishop Morrie you'll never see
What is the organ that sees the invisible?
The Buddha who lives in our backyard
Bishop Morrie remembers Bishop Lucker
'Doing nothing' a place of surprising activity
