“The sermons and homilies cover each segment of the church year from Advent to ordinary time and span nearly 40 years of Rahner’s proclamation of the Good News. In some cases, the reader will laugh with Rahner at a world that seems to have gone mad; in others, he or she will silently reflect on a great truth. Whichever emotion comes to them, readers cannot fail to be impressed a the depth and breadth of Rahner’s thought. Unlike his theological writings, which can be obscure, these sermons provide a smooth entrance for those who are just beginning to read this fie contemporary theologian and preacher.”
“Medellín was a profound, hopeful, and unforgettable spiritual experience of historical commitment and prayer; it was a strong call to solidarity with the «least of these who are members of my family [brothers and sisters]» (Matthew 25:40). It put us on the path of what Pope Francis calls «a poor church for the poor». It is a vision in which there is perhaps little «religion» but much of the Gospel.”
“Wandering through the same country as Garrison Keillor and Robert Fulghum, Lindvall has a kind hearted, humorous way of exposing human fears and foibles.”
“René Girard’s work suggests the prospects of those nineteenth-century intellectual giants— Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud— who still cast such long shadows today.”