books
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God, Sex, and the Universal Longing
Before I went on a Roman pilgrimage with Christopher West, I thought I should delve into some recommended reading by Christopher West. Too many religious text skirt around the topic of sexual desire. But this goes full-force. It doesn’t tiptoe around “sensitive topics,” but instead goes in the opposite direction: West shows not only that… Continue reading
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My Confirmation Namesake
I’d been searching for a book on St. Edith Stein for some months. I’d claimed her name as my own in Confirmation, but knew merely the basics of her story—she was a feminist during WWII, a Jewish convert who perished in Auschwitz. With “basics” like that, I was eager to know more. On the first… Continue reading
And they said to him, “Inquire of God, we pray thee, that we may know whether the journey on which we are setting out will succeed.”
And the priest said to them, “Go in peace. The journey on which you go is under the eye of the LORD.”
—Judges 18:5–6