Book Review

Dr. Tim O’Malley, a Catholic theologian, author and teacher, will host a day of formation on April 12 at Seven Colors Church in Albany.

C.S. Lewis understood the importance of spiritual reading to bolster a person’s faith. To use his analogy, without it, we will starve. This fall book review offers seven selections to support you in your faith journey.

Imagine if an ancient, long-hidden foundational document clarifying eligibility for church leadership comes to light in contemporary times. When interpreted and set in proper context, the document obviates the concept of an all-male priesthood and in turn spreads turmoil throughout the universal church.

The book “is written for the curious layperson who wants better to understand the background of the stories that make up the Hebrew Bible.”

By Allan F. Wright “An Exorcist Explains the Demonic: The Antics of Satan and His Army of Fallen Angels” by Father Gabriele Amorth with Stefano Stimamiglio. […]

For those who only know what they read about those decades and the people, events and movements integral to them, they will feel as though they “were there” once they have read “Getting Religion.”

These three books, from rather different perspectives and backgrounds, propose to help us navigate the challenging waters of understanding and exploring just what spirituality is and how to live it out.

“The Life We Bury” by Allen Eskens; Seventh Street Books, October 2014; 303 pp; $15.95 “The Guise of Another” by Allen Eskens; Seventh Street Books, October […]