Environment

Against the Machine

What is a home? And what happens when old patterns of life break down? British writer and former environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth grapples with these questions, and shares his responses.

Spirituality

Nonfiction

Fiction

Environment

Economy

Article

Still Lives

Two large-scale projects by contemporary artists help us see animals as individuals with faces, names, and stories of their own.

November 29, 2019

Article

Adrift & Alone

Despite occasionally sincere, sometimes ritualistic, expressions of communion with Rome, the effort to neuter Pope Francis’s message in the United States continues.

November 25, 2019

Article

Exposing the Spirits

The synod on the Amazon will be remembered as the moment that bishops gathered in Rome asked the pope to ordain married men in order better to serve the poor.

By Austen Ivereigh

November 1, 2019

Pope Francis

Secularism and Modernity

Article

‘Why Call It Progress?’

Despite the assertions of Francis’s critics, the current pope has in fact pushed out from a path firmly forged by his predecessors.

September 30, 2019

Article

Why Not Think Big?

Climate change is a crisis that we have created. But in knowing that we caused it, we also have the power to address it.

By The Editors

September 3, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Global Protests & Income Inequality

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

By The Editors

November 21, 2019

Religion

Preeminent?

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.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Culture

St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

Books

Ask the Dust

Masada is not just a significant site for the history of Second Temple Judaism. Its story also exerts a powerful hold on the modern state of Israel.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

November 11, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019