June 2020

It is comforting to imagine we are making steady progress in combating racism. But it’s also misleading: we have done far too little in the last fifty years.

The American public demands peaceful conduct from citizens protesting police brutality and racism. Why doesn’t it expect the same of law enforcement?

The two often go together, and should: not just in Jesus’s life, but in our own. In light of racial injustice, though, righteous anger comes first.

Longtime peace activist Martin Gugino represents a face of Catholicism that Donald Trump would not know from the ‘powerful’ Catholics around him.

Higher education is not merely a process of downloading data, or meeting via Zoom. The communal learning process requires a real campus.

James Baldwin’s ‘The Fire Next Time’ reveals the destructive tendency of white Americans—and white American Christians most of all—to avoid self-scrutiny.

The reaction to Tom Cotton’s ill-conceived essay is not just a step on the slippery slope to intellectual conformity. It is illiberalism, full stop.

A new, polyphonic collection with poems by more than a hundred Latinx writers responds to the vexed problem of identity with expansiveness, not reductionism.