Rachel Amiri Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rachel Amiri

@PylesofBooks @KatecBowler Kate’s work has been a balm for my soul for a few years now. Have you read her books? “Everything Happens for a Reason (and other lies I’ve loved)” was so validating for my early grief and confirmed I was on the right path in learning how to bear it.

Rachel Amiri

@AngelaM_SLP Bill Bryson’s audiobooks have a “professor on many tangents” vibe, but not like a class. “At Home” and “A Short History of Nearly Everything” are the ones I’ve read.

Rachel Amiri

@BigBlobApe The Pope & even Grech have been clear it’s not a democratic process. The listening stage reports aren’t what result will be. He suggested the Pope is a Peronist intent on using the popular will of the people to increase power & agreed it was a “play for Vatican III.”

Rachel Amiri

That Schmitz “review” in FT of Bachiochi’s book (“The Rights of Women”) reads like he’s been waiting YEARS to rant about pro-life feminists being man-haters and finally had the opportunity to do so. Just shoe-horned it in there. Totally unfair to her work.

Rachel Amiri

@mitch_is_tired Senior history curriculum is loosely based off of Chesterton’s “What’s Wrong with the World.” Honestly this curriculum would have likely radicalized my 17yo self against what it was trying to instill.

Rachel Amiri

No, the Josh Butler book on sex as icon is not an evangelical-lite version of Catholic sacramental teaching or the TOB. It works backwards w/ the metaphor, using [his] human experience of how sex is on this side of Eden in order to describe how God is. But what about the Fall?

Rachel Amiri

I am reading @bethallisonbarr’s “Making of Biblical Womanhood” (finally!) and it is such a balm for this Catholic reader. Her nuance & understanding of the distinctiveness of the Catholic tradition on patriarchy & how it differs from evangelicalism is welcome. And clarifying.

Rachel Amiri

@Jolz_Aust I’m reminded of what @pjfahey often brings up from Pope Francis’s letter on St. Joseph, Patris Corde. How Joseph’s chaste love is not “possessive” and reflects the love of the Father in that way.

Rachel Amiri

@Chris_SmithsJ @PodacastEater @wwrightcatholic @mfjlewis @Where_Peter_is IDK, you’re working against centuries of lay Catholic formation rooted in simply saying “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned…”

Rachel Amiri

@AlethiaWrites @DawnofMercy But the "household name" associated w/ the TOB is really West, with Gregory Popcak's work (particularly the guidebook "Holy Sex!") in a distant second place.