Looking for holiday gift ideas? Check out a selection of Christmas reading picks from America’s editors, now online and free to all. Includes new books like Darwin’s Angel, John Cornwell’s critique of Richard Dawkins, and old favorites like Death Comes for the Archbishop and Mr. Ives’ Christmas. What books are you buying this holiday season? Tell us in the comments boxes below the article. Tim Reidy
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17 years 3 months ago
I have read Bernard V. Brady's 'Christian Love' a few times, and it always inspires me not only to love more, but also to learn more. It's not a light read, that's for sure, so I am gifting it to my serious boss, but it is a delightful book that explores love as an occasion throughout history. It is a book that I always recommend highly.
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The question asked by many Syrians from Alawite, Shiite, Druse, Christian and other minority communities has become: “Can [I] live in an Islamist country and not be [Sunni] Muslim?”
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William Barrett is hardly remembered in Catholic academic or literary circles, though his Catholic novels offer richly textured stories that avoid the sensational and sentimental.