Gina Dalfonzo

Jan 11, 2025 | nadyawilliams.substack.com | Nadya Williams |Gina Dalfonzo |Paul Pastor

If you happen to be on social media, you may have noticed that firmly enshrined in the liturgical calendar of social media fights are the Homer translation wars. I’m not entirely sure when this (ig)noble tradition got started, but having lived through multiple rounds of it, including at the end of December 2024, I believe it’s reached canonical status. Generally, each cycle of these wars involves someone expressing an opinion about a particular translation they cannot abide.

Apr 12, 2024 | religionunplugged.com | Gina Dalfonzo

Books that address the rise of singleness appear to be everywhere these days. Many of these books are centered around the church, such as “Get Married”and “Solo Planet” to “Singleness is Not a Sin,” “Your Calling is Christ, Not Marriage” and “What the Single in Your Pew Needs from You.” The reason is not mysterious. Singleness is on the rise in our society in a way that is changing the demographic realities of America and Christianity across all denominations.

Feb 18, 2024 | dearstrangethings.substack.com | Tan Twan Eng |Alice McDermott |Gina Dalfonzo

Tears of Gold: Portraits of Yazidi, Rohingya, and Nigerian Women by Hannah Rose Thomas (Plough Publishing, 2024). Tears of Gold is a gut punch of a book, a riveting record in pictures and words of women who have survived horrors worse than most of us could imagine. British artist and activist Hannah Rose Thomas was inspired to create the book while working with women and children who had been through captivity by terrorist groups or fled from ethnic cleansing.

Nov 24, 2023 | christandpopculture.com | Gina Dalfonzo

In the summer of 1916, an Ohio farm boy had an encounter with God. What he experienced on a quiet country road one evening was so powerful that he would build his entire life and career on trying to recreate it. And his efforts would influence the way Americans understand faith to this day.

Nov 2, 2023 | englewoodreview.org | Gina Dalfonzo

Balancing the Biblical Bias Towards Child Bearers A Review ofPaperback: Eerdmans, 2023Buy Now: [ BookShop ] [ Amazon ] [ Kindle ]Reviewed by Gina DalfonzoIf childlessness is not exactly a sin in today’s church, for many it’s the closest thing to it. I discovered this as a childless woman working in the Christian pro-family movement for more than twenty years, finding myself looked down upon by the very people whose cause I had made a career out of supporting.