Book Discussions

Wise Thoughts for the Graduate—and for the Rest of Us, Too

by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/22/2013

Now we share some wise and hopeful words from the late Lisa-Marie Calderone-Stewart, in I Wasn’t Dead When I Wrote This: Advice Given in the Nick of Time: If you still think everything seems hopeless, I invite you to do a simple exercise. On one side of a piece of paper, try listing all the [...]

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A Powerful Story about Writing a Story

by Vinita Hampton Wright on 05/20/2013

It’s the season for graduations. Most of us know someone who will be moving on to high school or college or from college to (we hope) a working life. One difficulty of the graduation transition is that the graduate’s elders want desperately to pass along their best advice—and this at a time when many a [...]

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Video Chat with Jake Martin, SJ

by Vinita Hampton Wright on 02/06/2013

I asked Jake Martin, SJ, about the theme of his book What’s So Funny about Faith? He summed up the theme in the word “reconciliation.”

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A Season of Mystery

by Vinita Hampton Wright on 11/26/2012

This week I advertise just one new Loyola Press book: A Season of Mystery: 10 Spiritual Practices for Embracing a Happier Second Half of Life. The author is one of my favorite people, Paula Huston, and she is also one of the most capable writers for this topic. I’ve included a substantial excerpt from the [...]

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What’s So Funny About Faith?

by Vinita Hampton Wright on 11/21/2012

And then one day I was on stage doing an improv show, and in the middle of a scene, it occurred to me: Maybe I’ve done all of this for different reasons than I thought. “I think I’m going to be a priest,” I said after the show. “I think I’m going to be a [...]

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