No musician this side of Bob Dylan has been mythologized more than Bruce Springsteen Depending on who you talk to he is a modern-day Woody Guthrie a spiritual descendant of John Steinbeck or a would-be intellectual who reads William Carlos Williams on the tour bus The trick for those who consid

This carefully crafted selection of readings from 40 works by Henri Nouwen walks the reader through the seasons of the liturgical year It invites us to travel on quot a journey from chronos the chronological world of clocks and calendars to kairos time viewed as opportunity or encounter quot

Paula Huston has much in common with Kathleen Norris and Henri Nouwen two major stars in the constellation of contemporary writers on the spiritual journey That rsquo s good company for Huston and good news for us At least on the evidence of The Holy Way Practices for a Simple Life Huston appea

Gerald G May rsquo s name will be familiar to many readers from his previous writings on spiritual matters The present volume offers a series of reflections on his study of the spiritual writings of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross two of the greatest and most authentic of Christian mystics

Randy Newman has a tune called God rsquo s Song That rsquo s Why I Love Mankind that can send a shiver down the spine of all believers even those who believe we would be better off without belief In it a malicious God sits in his heaven world-weary and sarcastic Man means less to me he says

If war is hell a literary corollary might be that every society touched by warfare needs its own version of Virgil or Dante to journey to that hell and return to tell the tale In her collection of short stories Anthonia Kalu plays such a role with respect to the Nigeria-Biafra War of 1967-70 Thi