Thus far in this series I have not articulated any critique of Michelle Nickerson’s Spiritual Criminals.  One reason why is that these explorations were never meant to be a book review, much less a critical review. I felt no obligation, hence, to hold to a critical approach. My point with the posts was to highlight the book’s intellectually generative nature. For me, for instance, it enabled a rethinking of a period of Catholic activism that I had left personally unexplored due. Spiritual Criminals caused me to investigate my prior personal mindset which I laid out in the first entry of Read more