New biography chronicles Dorothy Day's astonishing life in detail

Book review: Eclipsing other works, John Loughery and Blythe Randolph's Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century, is the fullest, lengthiest story of a woman who lived the subversive way of the Gospels.

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The Native America of today

Book Review: The author argues that to fully know America, all of us, Native and non-Native, need to look at and understand the Indian past and present. If we don't understand Indian history as part and parcel of everybody's history, then we miss "the full measure of the country itself."

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Authors take the environmental movement to task

With the 2015 publication of "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home," Pope Francis' ecological manifesto, the Catholic Church stepped powerfully and clearly into the now-decadeslong public conversation about the state and future of our planet, the role of the environmental movement and our understanding of the human's place within creation.

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Sustainability bound with spirituality

08142015p20ph.jpgDISTANT NEIGHBORS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF WENDELL BERRY AND GARY SNYDER
Edited by Chad Wriglesworth
Published by Counterpoint, $16.95