April 2023

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Making Room in the Inn

Alejandro Nava describes the alternative spiritual education he’s received at Casa Alitas, a shelter for migrants and refugees in Tucson.

By Alejandro Nava

April 30, 2023

Immigration

Politics

Theology

The Last Word

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Whose War Is It?

In Germany, the postwar culture of minimal military intervention makes responding to the crisis in Ukraine especially difficult.

By William Collins Donahue

April 29, 2023

War and Peace

Russia

Ukraine

Feature

End-of-Life Dreams

“In a high-tech, evidence-driven world of contemporary medicine, it was a dream that led a physician to conclude that my wife was dying. How was that possible?”

By Paul Lauritzen

April 24, 2023

Death and Dying

Health Care

Spirituality

Article

Freedom, True and False

Andrea Wulf’s new book offers meditations on freedom, as told by a company of scholars that includes Goethe, Schiller, and Hegel.

By Naomi Fisher

April 24, 2023

Article

Together in Grief?

Cara Levine’s artwork uses interconnectedness to counter the isolation of grief.

By Kate Lucky

April 17, 2023

art

Death and Dying

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One becomes a Christian—another Christ—so as to bear Christ’s light and life to others and, ultimately, to offer the whole world back to God.

Baptismal Ecclesiology & Vatican II

By Rita Ferrone

April 12, 2023

Article

Have Men Become Culturally Redundant?

Men in the industrialized world seem to have lost their groove. We need a new vision of masculinity adequate to our current social and economic circumstances.

By Brendan Ruberry

April 10, 2023

Feature

Faces of Courage in Iran

Five hundred Iranian protesters have suffered serious eye injuries after police fired on them with birdshot. Here are eight faces of courage.

By Anonymous

April 6, 2023

Feature

Is American Democracy Coming Apart?

Those who would follow him, Jesus tells us, must love their enemies. Those words issue a challenge for all Americans interested in redeeming democracy’s promise.

By James T. Kloppenberg

April 4, 2023

Article

Hoover’s America

Beverly Gage's biography of J. Edgar Hoover challenges the traditional historiographical perception of Hoover's role in America's "long national nightmare."

By Tom Deignan

April 2, 2023

Books

History

Domestic Affairs

Article

Macron’s Gamble

Furious protests have emerged over Macron’s pension reform, rammed through over the objection of the National Assembly. His message to protesters? Get over it.

By Miles Doyle

March 29, 2023

International

Economy

Politics

Article

Where Will America’s Climate Migrants Go?

Journalist Jake Bittle on how the changing climate is transforming housing and migration within the United States

By Isabella Simon

March 27, 2023

Interview

Climate Change

Domestic Affairs

Article

Another Bank Crisis, Another Bailout

As long as liberal leaders remain unwilling to address a corrupt economic model that privatizes profits while socializing risks, they invite authoritarian fantasies.

By The Editors

March 27, 2023

Economy

Politics

Editorial

Article

Paraguay at a Crossroads

The United States has accused the largest party in Paraguay of corruption. But is the alternative any better?

By Santiago Ramos

March 24, 2023

Latin America

Foreign Affairs

Joe Biden

Article

What Has Become of the White Working Class?

How did the white working class fall for a suit whose catchphrase was “You’re fired”?

By Mark Phillips

May 2, 2023

Domestic Affairs

Donald Trump

Article

A Life of Repose in the World to Come

A remarkable Norwegian prose poem by Jon Fosse shows readers what it’s like to come to rest by receiving the gift of Jesus.

By Paul J. Griffiths

April 7, 2023

Article

Poem | From the Bench

"No league rules, / no umpire: only palace intrigue / during the final / years"

By Stephen Kampa

March 29, 2023

Poetry

Article

Books in Brief

The editors read nonfiction about the escapist fantasies of the ultra-wealthy, novels about the Redwoods, and a memoir on Sikh teachings of service and love.

By The Editors

March 27, 2023

Books in Brief

Nonfiction

Fiction

Article

Poem | Dear Other

"This fig from a neighbor’s tree / has less taste for me / than my fear’s taste"

By Jerry Harp

March 27, 2023

Poetry

Article

Islam’s Future in Kathmandu

The Madrasa Discourses project provides a space for Muslims across South Asia to engage in a discussion regarding the future of the Islamic faith.

By Thomas Albert Howard

March 27, 2023

Islam

Asia

Article

The everyday, unproblematic sense of “merit”—excellence, worthiness, virtue—has long been used to trump another everyday intuition: that the coexistence of widespread poverty and fantastic wealth is morally unacceptable.

Letters | Reconsidering merit and inequality

By The Editors

March 27, 2023

Letters

Article

Poem | Baptism

“Can you see, outside the church window, / the small corner of opened earth, / where land mixes with violets and old bones?”

By Valerie Wohlfeld

March 23, 2023

Poetry

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