Sociologist Allison Pugh explores this "connective labor" — work that "involves 'seeing' the other and reflecting that understanding back" — in her new book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.
Catherine Ricketts' The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity is an excavation of the many questions, frustrations and, ultimately, gifts of a culture that welcomes mothers who make art.
The Hero and the Whore: Reclaiming Healing and Liberation through the Stories of Sexual Exploitation in the Bible asks readers to shed the patriarchal lens through which most of us have read and studied the Bible.
Book review: In First Belong to God: On Retreat With Pope Francis, Austen Ivereigh offers a retreat based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and delivering a compelling summary of Pope Francis' theology.
Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision by Diane Winston is a measured and meticulously detailed account of the Reagan era and its significance for today.
Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Pope Francis have studied and grieved the Holocaust together many times, but the pope's new memoir offered Skorka fresh insight into why they share a special concern about this painful issue.
A Ministry of Risk chronicles 44 years of Philip Berrigan's writings about his life of nonviolent activism, in which he spent more than 11 years in jail and prison for actions opposing war and nuclear weapons.
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.