July/August 2024

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Getting the Question Right

'The Novelist' insists that the question must be: “How can I live a meaningful life?” and not, “Is life really meaningful?”

By Santiago Ramos

August 21, 2024

Arts

Books

Fiction

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Just Passing Through

The winner of the Commonweal prize for short fiction features stasis, paralysis, superstition, and longing in a New England winter.

By Kaylie Borden O’Brien

August 12, 2024

Fiction

Article

Time’s Shambles

In Jakob Ziguras’s newest collection of poetry, the past and present of Venice mix and match.

By Micheal O’Siadhail

August 6, 2024

Arts

Books

Poetry

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One Year to Mourn

Should grief be conceptualized as a medical disorder? What are the likely consequences of treating it this way?

By Paul Lauritzen, Mathew A. Crawford

August 1, 2024

Science

Health Care

Religion

Feature

Already Victorious

Ukrainian Olympians have endured two years of wartime hardships to prepare for the Paris games.

By Susana Girón

July 26, 2024

Ukraine

Sports

War and Peace

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Did ‘Churchianity’ Sink American Socialism?

Janine Giordano Drake’s new book locates institutional Protestant complicity with capital at the root of America's social ills.

By Heath W. Carter

July 26, 2024

Religion

Politics

History

Article

What's Behind America's Loneliness Crisis?

Taking on America's loneliness crisis will require making ourselves a nation of agents.

By Ian Marcus Corbin

July 24, 2024

Culture

Politics

Domestic Affairs

Article

Sustaining Vocations

"Where, I wonder, will my generation of theologians seek vocational sustenance?"

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

July 17, 2024

Religion

Theology

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The Gratitude of Marilynne Robinson

In her reading of Genesis, Marilynne Robinson honors humanness while affirming the divine.

By Todd Shy

July 14, 2024

Religion

Books

Theology

Article

Laughter and Silence

Percival Everett's 'James' retells the story of 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from the perspective of the escaped slave, Jim.

By Adam Fleming Petty

July 9, 2024

Article

A New Arms Race

It is time for the growing threat of nuclear war to take its rightful place at the center of our debates about foreign policy.

By Miles Doyle

July 8, 2024

War and Peace

International

Russia

Article

The Orthodox Church Ordains a Deaconess

“Would the ordination of deaconesses in one apostolic lung of the Church make it easier for the other?”

By Carrie Frederick Frost

July 5, 2024

Article

A Letter from India

In India, Narendra Modi didn't win the landslide victory he expected. That's a good thing.

By Jo McGowan

July 3, 2024

India

Foreign Affairs

Article

Revival and Revolution

A controversial historical claim grounds MAGA evangelicalism's embrace of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

By John Fea

July 2, 2024

Religion

Politics

Donald Trump

Article

Biden’s New Border Policy

President Biden’s executive order will only make migrants’ journeys more dangerous.

By Regina Munch

July 1, 2024

Immigration

Joe Biden

Latin America

Article

Toxic Tech

We cannot afford to sacrifice an entire generation to the heedless megalomania of half a dozen tech tycoons.

By Griffin Oleynick

June 29, 2024

Culture

Politics

Technology

Article

The problem with our politicians is not one of competence but of courage.

The Politics of Prices

By The Editors

June 27, 2024

Article

Trump's Glitz and Graft

"The consistent thread here is cheating, whether in business or in personal life: the two mingled for Trump."

By Paul Moses

June 12, 2024

Donald Trump

Politics

Article

The Lack Is Sacred

In 'Zero at the Bone,' Christian Wiman presses poetry into the service of faith.

By Paul Lakeland

June 6, 2024

Poetry

Books

Spirituality

Article

All Darkness

The artist Käthe Kollwitz never turned away from the world, or from herself.

By Robert Rubsam

May 29, 2024

Arts

Culture

Article

To Have or Have Not

What’s new is not that having kids has become less advantageous, but that they’re considered one possible project among many that one can choose.

By Dominic Preziosi

August 18, 2024

Women

Secularism and Modernity

Politics

Article

Migration's Doom Loop

Jonathan Blitzer's book sheds light on the complicated strands of our knotted immigration system.

By Alejandra Oliva

August 13, 2024

Immigration

Latin America

Nonfiction

Article

An Image of Faith?

'The Incredulity of Saint Thomas' presents faith as an intimacy with the body of Christ.

By Arthur Aghajanian

July 2, 2024

Article

Poem | Morning's Dove

"A thousand and one versions / of hello, hello, hello and hello."

By Richard Schiffman

July 2, 2024

Poetry

Article

Who would he be at the end / when his breezes all lay down / like impalas in the dusk?

Poem | Weak Elegy

By Don Barkin

July 2, 2024

Poetry

Article

Poem | Oppression

"Twenty hyenas corner Red the lion / on TV and no one interferes."

By Judith Skillman

July 2, 2024

Poetry

Article

Poem for a Summer Morning

"Someone has to be around to keep / the sweaty city surviving the news."

By John Skoyles

July 1, 2024

Poetry

Article

Poem | Ancient Firefly

"Lightning bugs signal their location / in the approaching dark like God, / the ancient firefly, flashing, / disappearing, again, and again."

By Vernon Fowlkes Jr.

July 1, 2024

Poetry

Article

We desperately need women priests. Souls require it.

Letters | Women priests and Thomas Merton

By The Editors

July 1, 2024

Letters

Article

A Theological Case for God-She

From the archives: Elizabeth Johnson explores how patriarchal language defines our relationship to God and one another.

By Elizabeth Johnson

January 29, 1993

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