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The Life You Can Save

I just finished reading The Life You Can Save:Acting Now to End World Poverty by Peter Singer.

The Life You Can Save offers a seven-point plan that guides us to reflect and consider on how we can make a huge difference in the lives of others throughout the world.

Singer addresses the following topics: common objections to giving, why we don't give more, creating a culture of giving and improving aid. He recommends 5% of annual income as the new standard of giving of those who are financially comfortable, and rather more for the very rich.

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Transfiguration by John Dear

Transfiguration: A Meditation on Transforming Ourselves and Our World by John Dear is the March/April selection of the Spirituality & Health Book Group. For review, excerpts and discussion questions visit S&H Book Group Resource Kit.

Failing America's Faithful

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Interview

The Practical Prophet

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Go and Do Likewise

Go and Do Likewise Catholic Social Teaching in Action Mia Crosthwaite Twenty-Third Publications The call to be a Christian disciple means to live as neighbors to everyone, to treat each person with mercy and compassion. In clear, concise language, Mia Crosthwaite discusses each of the principles of the Catholic Church's social teachings and then offers a wide range of creative ways to live them in 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and 20 minutes a day. Go and Do Likewise translates what seems to be complex social teachings into very practical and doable responses to the needs and challenges of daily life. Mia Crosthwaite is an author, lecturer, catechist and minister of many years in the Diocese of Boise, Idaho. 86 pages, $12.95  1-58595-548-5

A Place of Mercy

faithAlivebooks is pleased to announce the publication of A Place of Mercy: Finding God on the Street, a new release by Thomas O'Brien. He is a professor of Catholic social thought at DePaul University in Chicago. To purchase a copy of A Place of Mercy, visit Amazon.com; to order in quantity, send an e-mail to danpierson@faithalivebooks.com.