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Title: Mustard Seeds by L. Brent Bozell, E. Michael Lawrence ISBN: 0-937495-06-9 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield (Non NBN) Pub. Date: 12 June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.50

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Summary: Valuable gems too easily overlooked
Comment: Someone encountering this book on a used-bookstore shelf, or in an online listing, might understandably pass it by with hardly a second glance. If the author's name is recognized at all, it might be as the founder and president of the Media Research Center -- although in fact that L. Brent Bozell is this author's son. The subhead, 'A Conservative Becomes a Catholic,' might seem to limit the appeal to conservatives or Catholics or, most likely, conservative Catholics. And if the browser picked the book up and glanced through the pages, she would find references to the Vietnam War, Joe McCarthy, Pope Paul VI, Earl Warren, President Nixon, and other oh-so-dated names and barely-remembered controversies. Back on the shelf it would go.

What a mistake. What a loss to the insightful and curious soul.

Because the political and social analysis are only serve only to introduce Bozell's deeper concerns, his own philosophical and moral wrestling with the question of what it is to be and live as a Roman Catholic. He explores his own spiritual evolution -- his 'journey,' we would say today -- and applies his insights to questions that are just as important in the twenty-first century as they were in the 1960s and 70s, when most of these essays were written:

Is there such a thing as a distinctively Catholic philosophy of politics and economics? Does being a Catholic require one to be pro- (or anti-) capitalist, pro- (or anti-) Marxist? And in modern America, where the culture has rejected its Christian inheritance and, instead of persecuting believers ridicules, sneers at, or -- worst of all -- ignores them, what are Catholic Christians called to do?

I am neither Roman Catholic nor conservative (at least, not precisely in the way Bozell is). But I found much here to 'ponder in my heart.' I recommend it for Christians of any stripe concerned (as we all should be) with how our lives and our faith intersect contemporary culture.