This year, global carbon emissions could drop 8 percent, the largest reduction since 2008. But with Trump in office, don’t count on permanent improvement.
The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.
In Mexico City there is an ancient agricultural system that consists of manmade islands, called chinampas. They risk ruin in the face of climate change.
The Religious Left has been here all along, engaging in protests and helping the vulnerable, a coalition of coalitions not tied to a single faith or set of policies.
Physical objects carry meaning for us, but their accumulation can be a kind of spiritual error. Reconciling this contradiction leads us to richer, deeper lives.
The Shakers, who arrived in America in 1774, are a religious community facing extinction. Their decline means nothing less than the end of an idea of heaven.
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