July / August 2020

I indulged myself even as I missed the thrift stores of our youth, the temples of musty counterculturalism where the point was how cheap, how many times recycled.

Catholics may accept evolution now, but it wasn’t always so. The bunker-mentality of nineteenth-century Neo-Scholasticism damaged Catholic theology for decades.

As the pandemic and its pageant of inequality demonstrates, fantasies of possession can neither save our lives nor give them meaning.

The gift of the Holy Spirit allows us to passionately fight for the peace of Christ, a peace far greater than the one offered by oppressive authorities.

It’s clear to everyone paying attention that Trump is a man untroubled by widespread death and suffering. Republicans should stop enabling him.

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

The future will require a sustained political effort to shift our collective understanding of what the economy really is.

As Colson Whitehead argues in his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the legacy of injustice is not something we can simply move past. Old crimes continue to shape us.