Alexander A. Pyles
Associate Dean, director of master’s programs and audience-focused journalism teacher @merrillcollege @UofMaryland.
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Jan 17, 2025 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Alexander A. Pyles |John Farrell
Church is a place where many people hope to find peace, but churches are made up of human beings, so is peace truly possible? Eliza Griswold’s Circle of Hope focuses on a church of the same name, founded decades ago in Philadelphia by Rod and Gwen White, California transplants seeking a “better way” to follow Jesus. Griswold spent four years during the COVID-19 pandemic immersed in the congregation.
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Aug 9, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Alexander A. Pyles |Maryanne Hannan
In The Sacrament of Same-Sex Marriage: An Inclusive Vision for the Catholic Church, Bridget Burke Ravizza effectively pleads with readers to listen compassionately to the stories of 22 same-sex married couples who have “meaningful connections to the Catholic tradition.” The relationships run the gamut, but the challenges non-heterosexual couples face, in society and in their chosen faith, cause unnecessary hardship. The stories are alternately heartbreaking, infuriating, and inspirational.
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Jun 14, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |John Farrell |Alexander A. Pyles
Yale psychiatrist Samuel T. Wilkinson’s Purpose belongs to a small but highly touted group of recent books that attempt to defend an understanding of human purpose and human exceptionalism while negotiating the challenges posed by Darwinian evolution. Wilkinson’s advocacy of an evolutionary approach to human purpose is certainly welcome. However, the scope of the discussion is sometimes too narrow.
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Apr 19, 2024 |
uscatholic.org | Nathaniel Hunter |Rebecca Weiss |Alexander A. Pyles
Despair hits differently at different times, and sometimes what hits isn’t despair, but a pleasurable cosplay of it. What poet Christian Wiman explores in Zero at the Bone, an interweaving of poems, reflections on poems, and memoir is the real thing. His musings on God, humanity, love, poetry, philosophy, evil, and suffering are shaded by his experience of living with cancer, an “intimate acquaintance with the condition” of despair. “I have no idea what this book will be,” he writes at the opening.
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Jun 11, 2023 |
chireviewofbooks.com | Alexander A. Pyles
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