Monkfish Book Publishing Company

01/02/2026

Congrats to Rodger Kamenetz on making Foreword Reviews' Book of the Day roundup this week with his wonderful new title Seeing into the Life of Things.

Seeing into the Life of Things / Imagination and the Sacred Encounter / Rodger Kamenetz / Monkfish Book Publishing / Softcover $22.99 (224pp) / 978-1-958972-91-5 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop) / Rodger Kamenetz’s Seeing into the Life of...

12/30/2025

The Englewood Review picked Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer by Colette Lafia as a STARRED NEW RELEASE.

"Colette Lafia brings us into the joys and sorrows of life, revealing how God’s enduring love is present in all we experience.”--Richard Rohr

Theology News & Book Reviews for Christian Readers

12/29/2025

A new review just in of Rodger Kamenetz's book Seeing into the Life of Things.
“Rodger Kamenetz…was so stirred by a meeting with the Dalai Lama that he reoriented his approach to life, attempting each day to gather treasured moments of consciousness, or as he calls them, blessings…. The story of his spiritual search is alive with many personal experiences involving the senses, images that he seeks to recall in moments of reflection…. All of these encounters, as well as interactions with people who cross his path in a day, form the content of the next day’s exercise in gratitude for the blessings of the previous day.” —Barbara B. Sims, New Orleans Times-Picayune

He was inspired in 1990, when the Dalai Lama met with a group of rabbis and Jewish scholars for a Jewish-Buddhist dialogue.

12/26/2025

Philip Goldberg author on why there are images of Jesus in the ashrams, temples, and meditation halls of many Eastern lineages.

A Christmas Tribute

12/12/2025

Roger Lipsey's "Eyes to See is a celebration of icons in art, finding beautiful connections across history, culture, and geography." --Foreword Review
"A refreshing, well-considered take on art."--Kirkus

Exploring art as a catalyst for spiritual awakening.

12/12/2025

"My Son, the Priest is less a memoir of conversion than one of mutual acceptance: between mother and son, doubt and faith, ambivalence and devotion. Gilger never resolves her unease with Catholic teaching, nor does she pretend to. But she does learn to appreciate the beauty her son finds in the church: its history, its liturgy, its ability to offer both courage and wonder. In a time when American Catholicism is as polarized as the culture around it, Gilger offers no easy answers. What she offers instead is rarer: an honest account of trying to remain open, of saying yes where she can, and of loving through deep differences."

Karen E. Park explores Kristin Grady Gilger’s “mother memoir” about her son’s most troubling decision: to become a Catholic priest.

12/09/2025

Today!

Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer
Join us for this free event with Colette Lafia
Register here: https://wellofmercy.org/current-retreats/843/leaving-the-shore-experiencing-poetry-as-prayer/

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 10-11 am PST/ 1-2 pm EST
LIVE ON ZOOM

We’ll explore how praying with poetry invites us to:
Recognize the sacred in the small details of our everyday lives.
Create a holy spaciousness around our experiences, instead of rushing past them.
Slow down so there’s more room for God’s presence in what we notice and how we respond.

Learn More & Sign Up Here: https://wellofmercy.org/current-retreats/843/leaving-the-shore-experiencing-poetry-as-prayer/

12/09/2025

Congrats, Colette Lafia. Leaving the Shore publishes today!

“Poetry is the voice of the soul, and in this beautiful collection, Colette Lafia brings us into the joys and sorrows of life, revealing how God's enduring love is present in all we experience” —Richard Rohr, author of The Tears of Things

“During these turbulent times, we need the steadying voice of feminine wisdom more urgently than ever. In this luminous book, spiritual guide Colette Lafia offers the fruits of her tenderly cultivated inner life to feed people of all genders who thirst for a direct encounter with the embodiment of love, which she recognizes as our own true nature.” —Mirabai Starr

https://indiepubs.com/products/leaving-the-shore?_pos=1&_sid=93b813e45&_ss=rn

12/08/2025

Join author Annette Knopp (Mystic Nomad), also co-founder of Blue Spirit retreat center in Costa Rica, for a free online class on finding True Connection. December 21, 11 am EST.

Free Online Class - Sunday December 21

12/03/2025

What a great family interview with Kristin Grady Gilger!

"The book was a way for us to have conversations, lots of conversations, and to understand each other and to, sort of, bridge that gap between my very secular world and his religious world."

The Show's Lauren Gilger set down with her mom and her brother to talk about her mom's new book: "My Son, The Priest: A Mother’s Crisis of Faith."

12/02/2025

Join Philip Goldberg (Karmic Relief, American Veda) this Saturday afternoon for a free talk about Karma at Tibet House in NYC.
https://thus.org/
(graphic by Tibet House)