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Honors for Shrayer
Congratulations to Maxim D. Shrayer whose book, Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story (Syracuse University Press), was named a finalist for a 2013 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Now in its 63rd year, the National Jewish Book Awards is the longest-running North American awards program in the field of Jewish literature. Established to recognize outstanding books of Jewish interest in various categories, it has earned its place as one of the nation’s premiere literary honors.
Review of Global Justice
America magazine has published a review of the newest book by J. Donald Monan, SJ Professor of Theology Lisa Sowle Cahill. The book, Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press), “demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible,” according to the publisher. In his review, T. Howland Sanks, SJ, calls Global Justice “rich and rewarding.”
Talking about Hope
Rev. Richard Lennan and Nancy Pineda-Madrid, editors of Hope: Promise, Possibility, and Fulfillment, were interviewed for a Boston College Chronicle article about their new book. Hope features essays on the theology of hope from 16 faculty members from the School of Theology and Ministry.
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Death penalty in Massachusetts
BC Law Professor Mark Brodin, author of William P. Homans Jr.: A Life in Court, recently participated in “The Death Penalty in Massachusetts: Past, Present and Future in Fact and Fiction,” an event sponsored by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Historical Society. The program offered three perspectives on the death penalty in Massachusetts. Brodin spoke on William P. Homans, Jr.’s successful decades-long campaign against the death penalty in the courts of the Commonwealth. Other speakers were ACLU of Mass. legislative counsel Ann K. Lambert and US District Judge Michael A. Ponsor, author of The Hanging Judge. | View an interview with Brodin discussing lawyer and activist Homans from the Boston College Law School archives (Click on “Link to Full Text” for video).
Kenyon in Dark Duets
“Steward of the Blood,” a story co-authored by Nate Kenyon of BC Law School, has been published in the new anthology Dark Duets: All-New Tales of Horror and Dark Fantasy. In other news, Kenyon’s novel Day One was named a Best Book of 2013 by the blog The Top Shelf.
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Who were the Molly Maguires?
In the Oxford University Press blog, Professor of History Kevin Kenny, who specializes in the history of migration and popular protest in the Atlantic world, lists ten factoids that can help readers better understand the Molly Maguires and their place in US history. Kenny is the author of Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. His other publications are: Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction, Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment, and The American Irish: A History.
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more on Leaving Russia
Leaving Russia: A Jewish Story, the new memoir from Professor of Russian and English Maxim D. Shrayer, “poignantly captures [the] double life of [a] refusenik,” according to a review in the Jewish Journal. An excerpt was published by The Forward, and Shrayer discussed the work in a Q&A with the Russian-Jewish newsletter, The Soviet Samovar.
Spirituality for the family
Alumni Tim Muldoon, who works in Boston College’s Division of Mission and Ministry, and his wife, Sue, have published Six Sacred Rules for Families: A Spirituality for the Home (Ave Maria Press, 2013), which offers tips to parents to help them cultivate their children’s faith. Road-tested by their own three children, the rules are the product of Tim and Sue’s years of experience as parents and educators. Tim Muldoon is also the author of The Ignatian Workout and contributes to the online religion and spirituality website Patheos. He talks about the new book in the Boston College Chronicle.
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