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Book Review: Even Though I Walk: One Woman’s Journey of Prayer in the Shadow of Death

by Ignasi Fossas, OSB
reviewed by Maria Okorn

In the eleventh hour of her life due to a cancer diagnosis, renowned scientist and cardiologist Magda Heras began a reflective correspondence with Ignasi Fossas, a Benedictine…

Book Review: The Gifts Beneath Your Anxiety by Pat Longo

by Pat Longo
reviewed by Maria Okorn

Anxiety, panic attacks, sadness, and heightened sensitivity can carry with them a multitude of other effects—headaches, depression, and impediments from life’s joys. However…

Music Review: Phantoms

by Azam Ali
reviewed by Damon Orion

Azam Ali mixes influences to create a melancholic, elegant album.

Inner Work of Racial Justice book jacket

The Inner Work of Racial Justice

by Rhonda V. Magee
reviewed by Damon Orion

Racism and the harm that it brings persist, despite the best intentions of many of us. This book teaches how to use mindfulness to achieve greater racial awareness.

The Ungrateful Refugee

by Dina Nayeri
reviewed by Kathryn Drury Wagner

"In an Oklahoma church, a woman condescendingly told her, 'You came for a better life.' Nayeri writes, 'I thought I’d pass out—a better life? In Isfahan, we had yellow spray roses, a pool. A glass enclosure shot up through our living room, and inside that was a tree … life in Iran was a fairytale.'”