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Paperback: 136 pages Publisher: Fiction Collective 2; 1 edition (October 7, 2010) ISBN-10: 1573661589 ISBN-13: 978-1573661584 Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches I found this book somewhat mystifying. The stories in it are beautifully written with a dreamy, existential quality that kept me reading even when I had no clue where the story [...]
reviewed by Debra Murphy John Henry Newman was a leading spiritual and intellectual figure in the so-called “Oxford Movement” in the Anglican Church when, after a lengthy spiritual struggle, he converted to Catholicism in 1845. Some of his friends preceded him into the Church and many of his followers followed him, which made for [...]
Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.; New edition edition (January 1, 2004) ISBN-10: 0802812198 ISBN-13: 978-0802812193 reviewed by Christine Sunderland Looking for the Holy Graal in a Village Church In Charles Williams’ supernatural thriller War in Heaven, an exquisitely constructed story pits three good characters against three evil ones in the protection [...]
ISBN: 978-1-59597-0145 published by Idylls Press reviewed by Ellen Gable Hrkach I have been wanting to read The Mystery of Things by Debra Murphy for a long time. I was fortunate enough to receive a copy of this book recently and, on one rainy Saturday, I finally had an opportunity to read it. I was [...]
reviewed by Debra Murphy Life is a pilgrimage to God in God. –St. Benedict When a minor incident summons renewed guilt and nightmares over the accidental drowning of her eight-month-old child twenty years before, Madeleine Seymour, an erstwhile history professor, finally turns to her pastor, Fr. Rinaldi. “I killed her, Father,” she tells him. “I [...]
In September of last year I wrote a piece for Godspy on Ron Hansen’s Exiles a haunting and beautifully written meditation on priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the composition of one of his masterworks, “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” about a shipwreck that took the lives of five Franciscan nuns in 1875. Hansen’s earlier novel, [...]
Reviewed by John Murphy Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment is a sincere but shallow attempt to trace Christ’s growing divinity during his young adulthood, before entering public ministry. Deepak Chopra outlines his good intentions in an Author’s Note where he describes his novel as “pure fiction,” but goes on to say that “I’ve gotten a [...]
Reviewed by Debra Murphy From the back cover of the illustrated Idylls Press edition: “Originally published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton’s nightmare-fantasy of Police vs. Dynamiters, Law vs. Anarchy, and Religion vs. Nihilism has influenced writers as diverse as Franz Kafka and C.S. Lewis, and remains as exuberant and imaginative, as original and prophetic as when [...]
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