Learning to Die in Miami By Carlos Eire (Free Press, 2011)In 1962 Carlos Eire was one of 14,000 children evacuated from Cuba by Catholic parents who believed Fidel Castro would be ousted within months. Those evacuees still living are now grey-haired Cuban-Americans.

Journey to the Common GoodBy Walter Brueggemann (Westminster John Knox, 2010)In this compact study, biblical theologian Walter Brueggemann traces a remarkably similar pattern of cause and effect between the crises in today’s world—chronic war-making, ecological destruction, economic injustices—and the defining events in Jewish tradition.Brueggemann’s central focus is the Exodus-Sinai story, visite

The Ides of MarchDirected by George Clooney (Columbia Pictures, 2011)As the title suggests, George Clooney’s cynical drama about a presidential campaign is a tale of loyalties and betrayals, both personal and political, and of the hollow victories achieved through these various treasons.In the days and weeks leading up to the Democratic primary in Ohio, each of the three central characters espouse