Greg Hillis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Greg Hillis

@erin_zoutendam Totally fine! CJ Sansom’s Dissolution is must reading; the Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson is outstanding; I’ve been enjoying Julia Spencer’s-Fleming’s series featuring an Episcopal priest named Clare Fergusson. I have so many more recs, but these come top of mind.

Greg Hillis

Today is Thomas Merton’s birthday. Looking forward to celebrating it by discussing THE SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN in @AODonnellAngela’s class at Fordham this afternoon & with a lecture at 5:30. If you’re in NYC, join me for the lecture this evening! Details: https://t.co/Ssrk2bovEk

Greg Hillis

For #OpeningDay 5 years ago, I used Josef Pieper to argue that the decline of baseball’s popularity is a sign of our cultural repudiation of genuine leisure. I’m less grumpy about the pitch clock now, but the overall argument still stands https://t.co/j5zOz7Bfoq

Greg Hillis

If you haven’t yet read @SusanBReynolds1’s book, *People Get Ready: Ritual, Solidarity, and Lived Ecclesiology in Catholic Roxbury,* do yourself a favor and read it. You won’t be disappointed. https://t.co/tqCGr6aFDH

Greg Hillis

So I've been working on it, and recently wrote about the impact reading Thomas Merton's SEVEN STOREY MOUNTAIN had on me when I was in my early 20s.

Greg Hillis

I'm so excited that @MikeOLoughlin will be visiting @bellarmineU to talk about his important book, HIDDEN MERCY, on February 7 at 7:00 pm. Join us! https://t.co/N6Owk8WOSN

Greg Hillis

Currently packing books and I think it’s time to purge. Am I ever really going to read the whole of Barth’s Church Dogmatics? No. The answer is no. Not because I have anything against Barth but because life is too short.

Greg Hillis

@putzmanmusing @ArdorNew I love Dominicans and have profound respect for them. I'm about to be the executive director of a center founded by Dominicans, named after *the* Dominican, St. Thomas Aquinas. There are strange ducks everywhere, tbh. I don't think the Dominicans have any more than anyone else.

Greg Hillis

@erin_zoutendam Have you read Louise Penny’s Inspector Gamache series? If not, start with STILL LIFE and read in order. If you have, I have more recs!

Greg Hillis

Vatican II: Rupture or reform? My review of George Weigel’s new book on the Second Vatican Council. https://t.co/hOcTIeKmAd