Nonfiction

Article

Signed by the Cross

Every crusade was both more and less than a religious war. No one had a monopoly on brutality, and economic motivations mattered as much as religious ones.

By Thomas Noble

December 9, 2019

War and Peace

Nonfiction

Economy

Muslim-Christian Relations

Against the Machine

What is a home? And what happens when old patterns of life break down? British writer and former environmental activist Paul Kingsnorth grapples with these questions, and shares his responses.

Article

Tales of Assimilation

There’s a common thread that runs through these stories of first-generation Americans: their journeys are aided by flawed, limited, transcendent love.

December 6, 2019

Article

Is There an Alternative?

Is capitalism here to stay? Not necessarily, as real alternatives exist. The solution to its worst excesses is not less politics, but more.

December 5, 2019

Article

‘It’s Complicated’

As anyone who uses Facebook knows, we too quickly explain, meaning explain away, the world and each other. It’s not so simple; three books help complicate things.

By David Mills

November 29, 2019

Fiction

Nonfiction

Saints

Article

Christmas Critics

Art. Fiction. Memoir. Even a graphic novel. Our critics compile a list of their favorite readings from 2019. They make great gift ideas for the Christmas season.

By The Editors

November 29, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Global Protests & Income Inequality

This year seems unusual, both for the number and scale of protests across the world. What links them is the growing demand for greater income equality.

By The Editors

November 21, 2019

Religion

Preeminent?

The bishops’ insistence on abortion as the preeminent political issue reveals their resistance to Pope Francis’s call to serve the common good in all its complexity.

By Matthew Sitman

November 21, 2019

Culture

St. Ephrem’s Lament

The territory along the Syrian-Turkish border is the ancestral homeland of an ancient tradition of Aramaic-speaking Christianity. They’ve been betrayed before.

By Joseph Amar

November 19, 2019

Books

Ask the Dust

Masada is not just a significant site for the history of Second Temple Judaism. Its story also exerts a powerful hold on the modern state of Israel.

By Mahri Leonard-Fleckman

November 11, 2019

Collections

Injustice at the Border

The suffering of migrants and refugees on the border cannot be forgotten. Nor can the Trump administration’s deliberate cruelty toward them.

By The Editors

October 28, 2019