BIS Reads // It Is Good To Be Here: A Disabled Woman's Reflections on the Sacred Wonder of Being Human
Right off the bat, in a pointed preface titled “Crippled”, Christina Chase offers the kind of memoir I want to read. The illustration of her experience as a woman living...
Giving Thanks and Letting Go
I stand at the kitchen island slicing tomatoes. The lettuce and onion are already on the tray. There are french fries baking in the oven and a pan of brownies...
Sex and the Catholic Feminist Review
Sex, Catholicism, and feminism. Do I have your attention? These words are spoken about more frequently these days, both online and in Catholic culture. You might not think that those...
BIS Reads: A Newman Reader
I appreciate the challenge Dr. Muller met in culling through the numerous writings of the recently canonized John Henry Newman to produce such a reader. Along with biographical information, for...
Spiritual Reading + Prayers in a Time of Quarantine
In today's uncertain health climate, many of us find ourselves with more time to read than we've had in a long time. Looking around at what to pick up from...
BIS Reads: The Peace of the Wild Things
When despair grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and...
Books to Read During Lent
Am I the only one wondering how Lent has already arrived? It feels like just yesterday I was decorating my Christmas tree and enjoying White Christmas with a mug of...
BIS Reads: Ministry of Ordinary Places
Last fall, there was a terrible commotion down the street from me—firetrucks and police cars were everywhere, blocking the road. Only later did we come to find out that one...
BIS Reads: Leaf by Niggle
I am always amazed by the economy of a good short story. Authors like Flannery O'Connor, for example, teach us more about grace and the human condition in a mere...
How to Start an Online Catholic Book Club
I have always loved to read since I was a little girl. Nancy Drew, Harriet the Spy, the Bobbsey Twins, and various other books geared toward young girls were my...
Here, Too: The 2020 Lent Devotional for Catholic Women
As we close the Advent and Christmas seasons, we enter a brief but beautiful moment of Ordinary Time. And then, in just a matter of weeks, our journey to the...
Catholic Books for Your New Year's Resolutions
We have reached this year's final days. And in a couple of days, we will ring in a new year. When the year comes to a close, I like to...
