This book study and conversation of Robinson’s novel Home considers how the author calls her readers to a deeper, more courageous and perhaps quieter sense of faith. What does the book reveal about faith as a life of pilgrimage – the life of passion, restlessness and yearning? How does Robinson’s story challenge us “to overcome the frustration which at times grips us” and to “pose authentic questions” and “burn with desire,” in the words of Catholic theologian Bruno Forte.

PRESENTER: Bill McDonough is associate professor of theology at St. Catherine University in St. Paul. He has taught moral theology for 20 years and serves on the Wisdom Ways advisory committee. McDonough has authored many scholarly papers especially in the area of virtue ethics. With Bishop Raymond Lucker, he edited Revelation and the Church: Vatican II in the Twenty-First Century (Orbis Press, 2003).

WHEN: Thursdays, February 18, March 4, and 18, 7-9 pm

COST: $65

"There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding." - Marilynne Robinson, Home