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Monthly Archives: June 2011

Beauty in Overlooked Places and Faces

The Catholic Worker (New York) / June-July 2011 All is Grace: a Biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest Orbis Books, 344 pages, 2011 review by Amanda Daloisio Upon opening All is Grace, the new edition of the biography of Dorothy Day by Jim Forest, one is struck first by the sheer number of photographs. [...]

The Real Saint George

by Jim Forest True stories become streamlined into legends and legends become compressed into myths. The real Saint George never saw a dragon nor did he rescue a princess in distress. We are not even sure he had a horse or possessed a lance or sword. It is even possible he was a farmer. The [...]

The Gospel According to John Wayne

[a work in progress -- text as of June 2, 2011] by Jim Forest We live not by theories but by stories. For many the main story — the most compelling and influential story — is not the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what might be called the Gospel According to John [...]