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December 1, 2017

v.144 n.19

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Article

Senses of Possibility

Layli Long Soldier’s poetry replies to the U.S. government’s apology to Native Americans and Julia Cameron offers concrete tools for fostering creativity

By Ellen B. Koneck

December 5, 2017

Article

Rhyming Pages

During this trying year, a collection of poetry that people—young and old—can simply enjoy

December 4, 2017

Article

The Böckenförde Paradox

Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work bridges some of the current divisions in our church and our politics

By Michael J. Hollerich

November 27, 2017

Article

Pope Francis’s Supporters Should Make Themselves Heard

Those who support Pope Francis’s leadership tend to keep a fairly low profile compared to his critics

By Rita Ferrone

November 24, 2017

U.S. Catholicism

Article

There’s a risk that Democrats will succumb to ideological groupthink

Slow Down on Single Payer

By J. Peter Nixon

November 21, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Feature

Christians & the Death Penalty

If the death penalty seems a just and proportionate response to willful murder, so what? That’s not a Christian view of reality

By David Bentley Hart

November 16, 2017

Capital Punishment

Article

The Rich Keep Themselves Rich

Tax cuts and offshore loopholes should not allow the wealthy to evade their responsibility for the public good

November 14, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Article

Christmas Critics

What our Christmas Critics read this year

December 1, 2017

Article

Mad Men & the Just Man

Alasdair MacIntyre asks, “Can we explain our actions, to ourselves or others, by saying what desire they satisfy?”

By Edward Skidelsky

November 29, 2017

Secularism and Modernity

Article

Welcome to Our House

Advent and Christmas reading from the frontier

By Mollie Wilson O’Reilly

November 20, 2017

Article

Funk-Busting Books

Three kinds of books for the world- and word-weary

By Bria Sandford

November 20, 2017

Article

Peace-seekers today face an opportunity

A Right Not to Fight

By Bernard G. Prusak

November 20, 2017

Article

Revelations Here & Abroad

A coming-of-age tale, Americans abroad, Frank Sinatra’s genius, and the how and why of belief

By Paul Baumann

November 20, 2017

Article

An Art of Life

Carvaggio’s extraordinary painting changes an ordinary life, while Karl Ove Knausgård’s ordinary life makes extraordinary literature

By Ingrid D. Rowland

November 20, 2017

Article

Nope to Hope

Ta-Nahisi Coates argues that racism–more than class, non-voters, stupidity, and unemployment–is fundamental to Trump’s victory

By Margaret O'Brien Steinfels

November 20, 2017

Domestic Affairs

Article

Letters | Resisting racism, Christian activism, etc.

Readers respond to the editorial about events in Charlottesville, and the editors reply

November 20, 2017

Poetry

Poem | American Émigré

The cities we’ll build on the ruin of other cities will shimmer & shine before they fall

By John Sibley Williams

November 20, 2017

Poetry

Poem | C 54

To the dirt that no longer moves / you offer a mask the way a flower / over and over is readied for mornings

By Simon Perchik

November 20, 2017

Article

A Walk in the Woods

Where was—where is—the Whatever to make it all okay?

By Betsy Johnson-Miller

November 14, 2017

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