Isabella Simon

Article

Mountains, not Screens

Nature provides what technology can’t give. We must remember our responsibility to heal the planet, but we shouldn’t forget its ability to heal us.

By Isabella Simon

July 20, 2019

Spirituality

Environment

Article

Nostalgia & Resilience

Refugees and migrants encounter homesickness as they struggle to establish identities in unfamiliar, often unwelcoming territory. Three books show how they do it.

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