Chater, a widely published essayist, gives us an impressionistic portrait of a family immersed in extreme Catholic traditionalism. Written from the perspec-tive of the child and adolescent, Chater is successful in letting readers... Read More

When a fiction writer concocts a plot in which the fate of the world is at stake, the reader becomes a confederate, suspending belief in the expectation that plenty of fun will result. The author has an obligation as well: He or she... Read More

Sweeping in scope, populated by nations, this first book in a new series by author Bakker picks up twenty years after the events of his first trilogy, The Prince of Nothing. Readers of that series will find it easy to submerge themselves... Read More

It is love for God that calls one to endure the physical discipline of fasting, and that same love which fills one’s Sabbath rest with delight. Lacking that love, these spiritual disciplines would be devoid of meaning, mere physical... Read More

It is love for God that calls one to endure the physical discipline of fasting, and that same love which fills one’s Sabbath rest with delight. Lacking that love, these spiritual disciplines would be devoid of meaning, mere physical... Read More