New issue, now online
May 8, 2012, 3:51 pm
Posted by Grant Gallicho
What’s free:
* Our editorial “Rome & Women Religious”
* E. J. Dionne’s column “Mommy Wars & Money Worries”
* As previously noted, Jerry Ryan’s article on the life and death of René Page
* Kaya Oakes’s “A Crush on God: How a Young Priest Helped Me Hear Jesus”
What’s not:
* Alan Wolfe on the GOP’s aversion to reality
* David Golemboski on the flip side of subsidiarity
* Kevin Spicer’s review of Justus George Lawler’s new book Were the Popes Against the Jews?
* And more
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What are you doing without a Commonweal subscription? It’s good for you. And cheap.
Of the fifteen named writers in the current issue, twelve are men, and three are women. Two of the three women wrote poems. Only one wrote an article. (Praising a man.)
The five book reviews are all by men. Four of the five books reviewed are by men. The fifth is a collection of eight essays, seven of which are by men.
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Kindle? In January you and Matthew were reviling Amazon. (Matthew said my defense of Amazon was “neurotic”.)
My God, Gerelyn, you’re right! Actually, if you include Jesus, that one article praises two men. Unacceptable. I’m canceling my subscription.
Wait, I just noticed that three of the four letters to the editor are by women and the fourth is by a man who has an androgynous name. Let me plug this into my sophisticated formula for calculating resentment… Yes, the numbers work out. But just barely. You’re on notice, Commonweal editors. You know who you are.
Hi, Mollie!
Love that word “androgynous”. Shelly? Shirley? Marion? Bobbie?
Kaya Oakes’s article from her book is a classic. Describes so well the encounter with God which the young Italian Jesuit explains so beautifully using the gospels the way they were meant to be. Just beautiful. And, incidentally, the sharpest explanation of ‘transference’ that I have seen.
Great Kaya Oakes’ article. This is how the Church reinvents itself. Look at the cover of that book. Amazing.
I also agree about the Kaya Oakes article. Lots of food for thought and prayer there. And a sign of hope.