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From our pages in 1962, Thomas Merton writes on the duty of Christians in apocalyptic times

As fire season rages, a reflection on preparing for the worst

John Gehring spoke to Archbishop Wilton Gregory about race and racism, immigration, and the shifting geographic center of the U.S. church

Francis isn’t the first to question a key phrase of the Lord’s Prayer

Inequality will persist as long as we assume that the technocrats will eventually fix it for us

The priority of 2018 is for our nation to rise up and say: Enough

… ), and my favorite short story collection (Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other …

Chew on Doris Lessing’s observations about gender, class, and colonialism, and find there is even more in the book to think about

Trump managed to weaponize the season with branding that turned Christmas upside down

A strange German novel asks: What if a pope were to canonize Bach, or try to?

Terry Eagleton tries to figure out what we mean when we use the E-word

A sweeping biography of an overlooked figure

The Academy of Sacred Drama and Jeremy Rhizor are creating new audiences for once-familiar and forgotten music

A brutally candid account of obsession and grief

The consistently compelling reads of a prize-winning author