LaVonne Neff > LIVELY DUST

J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults was released a week ago, and a lot of reviewers have weighed in since then (Google them, if you ca...

Last year when Matt, the adult religious ed director at St. Mike's Catholic Church, asked the Wednesday morning class what they'd li...

Flunking Sainthood has to be the most entertaining introduction to spiritual disciplines ever written. For that matter, it may be the only ...

"Why in the hell would an intelligent Episcopalian woman choose to become a Catholic?" I had been a Catholic for less than six mo...

If you like Anne Lamott's nonfiction, you'll love  Lit . If you find Lamott's essays just a teensy bit irritating, try  Lit  any...

Just about every list of great African novels includes Chinua Achebe’s 1958 classic, Things Fall Apart (see my review here ). Achebe, a Ni...