Book Reviews

Author Lon Allison tells Rev. Billy Graham’s story, with intimate details of his life and their close relationship which allows the author to present a “bird’s-eye view” of the evangelist.

“On the Ignatian Way” is a hybrid of prayers for pilgrims, testimonies and word pictures that put you on a pilgrimage itself.

“‘A Bloody Habit’ is a straightforward Gothic vampire story, but with a particular twist in that I’m pitting Dominican friars against the vampires and presenting it through the eyes of a nonbeliever,” said author, Eleanor Bourg Nicholson.

“The Fisherman’s Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican’s Secret Search” by John O’Neill recounts a journey through centuries of history and the decades-long archaeological dig to find the bones of St. Peter.

Based on extensive research across a wide swath of religious perspectives, the book, “Religion vs. Science: What Religious People Really Think,” shows that the relationship between religion and science is much friendlier — and also more complex — than one might have imagined.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Tyler’s ability to tell a great story using ordinary characters with flaws and doubts endears her to many readers.

Whether one’s heritage is Irish or not, the inhabitants of the Emerald Isle continue to fascinate us. These two books offer a look at the past and the present, the gifts and the shadow side of the Irish and Celtic heritage.

Jim Forest has given us an extraordinary biography and memoir of Father Dan Berrigan (1921-2016), the Jesuit priest, poet and peace activist who sometimes went to jail for his convictions.