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.
Talking about Hope
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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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The best offerings from STM students
A new issue of the graduate academic journal of the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Lumen et Vita, has been published. The e-journal presents research and reviews from the STM student body.
Honors for The End of the Point
The End of the Point by Boston College English Professor Elizabeth Graver has received a couple of end of the year honors, notably from Kirkus Reviews and the New York Times Book Review. Kirkus named the multigenerational story of the Porter family to its list of Best Historical Fiction of 2013. The New York Times editors named The End of the Point one of their 100 Notables Books of 2013.
Charity, a sacramental action
Author Gary A. Anderson will present “I Give, Therefore I Am: The Primacy of Charity in the Christian Life” on Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. in the Cadigan Alumni Center, Brighton Campus. Anderson, the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (Yale University Press, 2013). Anderson is the president of the Catholic Biblical Association and author of the award-winning book Sin: A History. The Advent lecture is co-sponsored by the Church in the 21st Century Center and the School of Theology and Ministry.
Animals on parade
Alumna Molly Burke Hamilton, a former journalist, has written and illustrated Animals on Parade, a new children’s book of poetry about more than two dozen animals from cheetahs to zebras.
