On the Square Today

Kathryn Walker reviews  Raised Right :

Sometimes it’s hard to understand why young people deviate from the conservative mentalities of their parents during their young adult years, but  Raised Right: How I Untangled my Faith from Politics  offers an explanation for the switch. Recounting experiences of faith and politics through childhood into young adult years,  Raised Right  is an early memoir, chronicling Alisa Harris’ leap, like that of many young people, across the political divide from right to left.

Also today, Michael Hannon on vocation and discernment :

In so many Christian contexts today, it is almost impossible to avoid hearing about the importance of discerning one’s “personal vocation.” This label, apparently, is meant to denote the specific calling God gives to each individual, through which each is to live out his own particular call to holiness. Yet this language reflects only a half-truth. We are indeed meant to follow the will of God in all that we do. But such popular talk of one’s “calling” also betrays a crucial misunderstanding of discernment, a cardinal error that is entirely foreign to the great tradition of the Church.