Blue Walls Falling Down By Joshua Hren Angelico Press, 2024. Paperback, 436 pages, $22.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Can love reconcile America’s partisan divide between left and right, between racially obsessed identity politics and radicalized nativist...
Religious Freedom: A Conservative Primer By John D. Wilsey. W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2025. Hardcover, 288 pages, $28.99. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. Adjectives that shape “conservatism” are not in short supply. Two early ones, casting conservatism into...
Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World By Thomas Griffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 2024. Paperback, 168 pages, $18.95. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. The New Deal. The Great Society. No Child Left Behind. Build Back Better. The...
November 7, 2024, marked the third anniversary of long-time Bookman editor Gerald Russello (1971-2021). This week he was honored with the publication of his most representative essays and reviews. How Do You Do It? The Selected Works of Gerald Russello is now...
Practicing Christians, Practical Atheists: How Cultural Liturgies and Everyday Social Practices Shape the Christian Life By Phil Davignon. Cascade Books, 2023. Paperback, 158 pages, $22. Reviewed by David G. Bonagura, Jr. What are the biggest factors driving...
Continually Revising History
@lee_trepanier on "The Unity of Mankind and the Conversation of Civilizations. Reflections on the Basis of Eric Voegelin’s The Ecumenic Age" (Eric Voegelin Studies) Edited by Axel Bark and Harald Bergbauer.