Birth. Death. What lies in between? A short span, often punctuated by suffering and loneliness. Each of us must wrestle with the “perennial problem of human finitude” (Ratzinger) and face the question of our life’s meaning. Is it good . . . fundamentally? Does it promise anything? Does it keep its promise? Absent hope in a good answer, we try to escape reality with numbing diversions of various kinds—from screens to drugs. We hang on, barely alive. Instead, when we attend to the glimpses of goodness in our existence, it is possible to engage it fully alive in the hope that our finitude will blossom into the abundance of eternal life.
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Book Reviews
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In Defense of Driving by Molly Black
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Crawford, Matthew B., Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
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Escape into the Real with the Saints by Charity Hill
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John Cavadini and Catherine Cavadini, illus. Anastassia Cassady, Saints: A Family Story
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The Purifying Fire of Real Marriage by Conor B. Dugan
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Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told
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