Something good to read
We had a nice weekend. Saturday was our anniversary, so between that and Father's Day, my husband Posco and I were thinking a lot about how blessed we were to find each other and be given the gift of our little boy.
Posco's Father's Day gift was The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice by Philip Jenkins. He had liked Jenkin's previous book (The Next Christendom) so he was really been looking forward to this one (and had been dropping some pretty big hints....)
Apparently the book did not disappoint -- he's already done with it (216 pages), has assigned me to read it, and is telling me to recommend it to my friends. He spoke especially highly of the chapters on The Situation. (Alas, he declined to write a Special Guest Blog on the book -- "who do I look like, Amy Welborn or something?")
Here is a link to the WaPo's review of the book, written by Paul Baumann, the editor of Commonweal. When I first read the review, something about it didn't seem to sit quite right (especially the last three paragraphs.) After reading the book, my husband suggested that the reviewer "probably started sweating around page 12".
