To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa (Book Thoughts) To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa by Jim Towey This book was given to me by a Benedictine priest who is known to Jim Towey, who in turn, as this book lays out, was known to Mother Teresa. Continue Reading →
“The Long Loneliness” by Dorothy Day (Book Thoughts) The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy Day There are textbooks and there are textpeople. Continue Reading →
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness by Janet Benge (Book Thoughts) Dietrich Bonhoeffer: In the Midst of Wickedness by Janet Benge I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Continue Reading →
Not in God’s Name by Jonathan Sacks (Thoughts on) Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence by Jonathan Sacks I remember a conversation I once had with an elderly English lady at Princess Royal Hospital in Orpington. Continue Reading →
Better by Atul Gawande (Book Thoughts) Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande I picked up this book last week as I was curious to know why anybody would possibly want to be a doctor. Continue Reading →
Science and Islam by Ehsan Masood (Book Thoughts) Science and Islam: A History by Ehsan Masood In these times of insanity where those in power would destroy the edifices of those they dislike (looking at the Middle East as I say this), it is important to look back and see what those who came before us built for us. Continue Reading →
Catholics by Brian Moore (Book Review) Catholics by Brian Moore I read this (rather ironically), while on an eight-day silent retreat at a Jesuit spirituality centre in the UK, after finding it on a bookshelf in the library. Continue Reading →
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (Book Review) The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan I was given this book by a senior teacher in the science department of a school I taught in for a time. Continue Reading →
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge (Book Review) The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge A wise old Irish man once told me that a wise old Jesuit once said to him at the beginning of a psychology lecture that “all psychology and philosophy exists in order to teach us to love other people”. Continue Reading →
