Orbis Books (USA)

Shortlisted for the 2016 Michael Ramsey Prize Smokey Mountain, the vast garbage dump in Manila has served for many years as an emblem of third world squalor - a metaphor for a planet slowly choking on garbage and waste.

A moving and spiritually grounded presentation of the value to the United States of migrants, immigrants, and refugees. The Bible is rich in powerful stories of migrants. Jesus was a migrant.

Drawn from a conference celebrating the 50TH anniversary of the landmark Vatican II document, Nostra Aetate ("Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions"), this multi-perspective collection of essays by the world's leading s