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		<title>War in Heaven by Charles Williams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Sunderland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217; supernatural thriller War in Heaven, an exquisitely constructed story pits three good characters against three evil ones in the protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mystery of Things by Debra Murphy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 19:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ellen Gable Hrkach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrimage by Christine Sunderland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[reviewed by Debra Murphy Life is a pilgrimage to God in God. &#8211;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. &#8220;I killed her, Father,&#8221; she tells him. &#8220;I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exiles (2008), by Ron Hansen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September of last year I wrote a piece for Godspy on Ron Hansen&#8217;s Exiles a haunting and beautifully written meditation on priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the composition of one of his masterworks, &#8220;The Wreck of the Deutschland,&#8221; about a shipwreck that took the lives of five Franciscan  nuns in 1875. Hansen&#8217;s earlier novel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment (2008) by Deepak Chopra</title>
		<link>http://www.catholicfiction.net/2009/01/23/jesus-a-story-of-enlightenment-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by John Murphy Jesus: A Story of Enlightenment is a sincere but shallow attempt to trace Christ&#8217;s growing divinity during his young adulthood, before entering public ministry. Deepak Chopra outlines his good intentions in an Author&#8217;s Note where he describes his novel as &#8220;pure fiction,&#8221; but goes on to say that &#8220;I&#8217;ve gotten a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyman, by Philip Roth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ reviewed by Kevin Murphy  The Menace of Oblivion Everyman begins “around the grave.”  And it stays there for the course of its brief length, stewing in angst and mortal fear. Clearly, it is the work of a man coming to grips with his own mortality – a terrified man at the edge of the abyss.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2006 23:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Murphy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviewed by Debra Murphy From the back cover of the illustrated Idylls Press edition: &#8220;Originally published in 1908, G.K. Chesterton&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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