Welcoming spring, observing Lent: it’s a season of new books for me. I often select a familiar devotional to read during Lent, and sure enough, there’s Fulton Sheen’s Life of Christ in this year’s rotation. I’ve added a work of fiction that’s a stretch for me on several counts: Silence by Shūsako Endō, first publishedContinue reading “Open Book: Welcoming Spring”
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Open Book: Waugh on Campion
This post appeared on the blog in a slightly different version in December 2016. Evelyn Waugh, better known for his fiction, turned his hand to biography to celebrate St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest and English Elizabethan martyr. Waugh wrote in the Preface to 1935’s Saint Edmund Campion that he was not attempting a scholar’s approach to hisContinue reading “Open Book: Waugh on Campion”
Open Book: on silence, a border, and Granite State history
I stepped aside this year from professional public policy work at the state level. Dear to me as that vocation was (and is), it was time to take a break from the noise. During this time of transition I happened upon Robert Cardinal Sarah’s book The Power of Silence: Against the Dictatorship of Noise (IgnatiusContinue reading “Open Book: on silence, a border, and Granite State history”
Ellen Kolb 