Robert Ellsberg Archives

Orbis Books: Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty

by Robert Ellsberg | Dec 2, 2024 | Departments, Orbis Books, Winter 2025

Orbis Publisher Robert Ellsberg previews Everyday Sacred, Everywhere Beauty on the contemplative life by the late Benedictine Sister Mary Lou Kownacki.

Orbis Books: Laudate Deum; Come, Have Breakfast

by Robert Ellsberg | Mar 4, 2024 | Departments, Orbis Books, Spring 2024

The publisher of Maryknoll’s Orbis Books shares a preview of two new titles, Laudate Deum and Come, Have Breakfast.

Orbis Books Publishes Memoir on Anniversary of Chile Coup

by Deirdre Cornell | Sep 7, 2023 | News

To mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup d’état in Chile, a new Orbis book highlights the courage of religious who helped the dictatorship’s victims.

Orbis Books: Ukraine Diary

by Robert Ellsberg | Jun 1, 2023 | Departments, Orbis Books, Summer 2023

Orbis Books publisher Robert Ellsberg previews an upcoming book, Henri Nouwen’s Ukraine Diary, in this issue’s Orbis Spotlight.

Orbis Books: Father Ed

by Robert Ellsberg | Mar 1, 2023 | Departments, Featured Stories, Orbis Books, Spring 2023

A groundbreaking Orbis book offers the first biography of Father Ed Dowling, the spiritual advisor of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W.

Orbis Books Spotlight: Dearest Sister Wendy

by Robert Ellsberg | Sep 1, 2022 | Departments, Fall 2022, Orbis Books

The publisher of Orbis Books recounts correspondence that led to “Dearest Sister Wendy: A Surprising Story of Faith and Friendship.”

Rising: Learning from Women’s Leadership in Catholic Ministries

by Robert Ellsberg | Jun 1, 2022 | Orbis Books, Summer 2022

“The word leadership can seem abstract and remote: this book makes it comes alive.”—Kathleen...

Orbis Spotlight: On Pilgrimage: The Seventies

by Robert Ellsberg | Mar 1, 2022 | Orbis Books, Spring 2022

Robert Ellsberg’s fifth collection of Dorothy Day’s writings, drawn from the last decade of her life, shows her characteristic radical values.

Orbis Spotlight: The Color of the Skin Doesn’t Matter

by Robert Ellsberg | Dec 1, 2021 | Orbis Books, Winter 2022

A memoir by Maryknoll Sister Janice McLaughlin tells the story of a life spent in service and solidarity with the people of Africa.

Orbis Spotlight: Community

by Robert Ellsberg | Sep 1, 2021 | Orbis Books

On the 25th anniversary of the death of Henri Nouwen, Orbis publishes a collection of his writings on community, a theme to which he constantly returned.