Category Books

Book review: “Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus”

“Can you tell me the story of your relationship with God so far?” This “threshold question” is at the heart of the book, Forming Intentional Disciples: The Path to Knowing and Following Jesus, by Sherry Weddell (published by Our Sunday…

Book Review: “An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel”

“An Introduction to the Prophets of Israel“, Richard Thomas Aquinas Murphy O.P., St. Paul Books & Media, Boston, 1996. 123 pages.         “In the Old Testament, the New lies concealed, in the New Testament, the Old lies…

Book Review: “A Map of Life”

“A Map of Life“, by Frank Sheed, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1994.  Originally published by Sheed & Ward, London, 1933.  147 pages. I first heard of Frank Sheed, a 20th lay Catholic apologist while I was in college when a…