MAGGIE HELWIG ’11
The housing crisis plaguing major urban centres has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly, it introduces us to the Artist, to Jeff, and to Robin: their lives, their challenges, their humanity. It confronts our society’s callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands, by bringing their stories to the fore, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace. (Coach House Books)
ERIN O’HALLORAN
(Trinity former instructor)
From the outset of the 20th century, Egyptian and Indian leaders understood their movements for self-determination as linked and part of a shared project. Following the First World War, as connections between the Middle East and South Asia proliferated, Egypt and India lay squarely at the heart of increasingly complex and multilateral relations. Drawing on a broad cross-section of Indian, Arab, British, and European sources, East of Empire: Egypt, India, and the World Between the Wars transcends archival partitions to tell a powerful and nearly forgotten set of stories about the rise of anticolonial nationalism and the end of empire across the Middle East and South Asia. (Stanford University Press)
KEVIN LEWIS O’NEILL
(Trinity Dean of Arts and Vice-Provost)
Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops moving credibly accused priests not simply between parishes but also across international borders. Unforgivable follows the movement of one such perpetrator from the Great Plains of central Minnesota to the Indigenous highlands of Guatemala, where this priest had access to children and even raised one as his own. Although Father David Roney is at the centre of this story, O’Neill offers ample evidence that offshoring priests is a common practice. Rigorously researched and viscerally important, this book raises urgent questions about holding the Catholic Church accountable. (University of California Press)
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