Melody S. Gee

Melody S. Gee is a freelance writer and editor, and the author of The Dead in Daylight and Each Crumbling House. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with her husband and daughters.

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Making an American

Jia Lynn Yang tells the story of a forty-year fight over immigration in the twentieth century, asking: What makes an American and who gets to decide?

September 7, 2020

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Language & Conversion

Conversion, like language acquisition, can be both comforting and bittersweet, a constant struggle toward fluency and understanding.

February 14, 2020

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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

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Why I Came, Why I Stay

I stay because the church feels enough like my own that I can say to those guilty of abuse, neglect, and coverup: I won’t let you have it.

By Melody S. Gee

October 6, 2019

Spirituality

Sexual-abuse Crisis

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Why I Came & Why I Stay

It took me just over three years to become a Catholic. I came because there was no other place to hold the conversation about why I’m here and what I am to do.

By Melody S. Gee

July 20, 2019

Spirituality

U.S. Catholicism

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Politics

Will a Plebiscite Bring Reform in Chile?

Mass demonstrators want to re-legitimize, reconstruct, and reconfigure Chile’s political foundation. But first, Chile must get past the pandemic.

By Santiago Ramos

September 1, 2020

Religion

Pope Francis’s Call to Fraternity

At the core of ‘Fratelli tutti’ is Francis’s conviction that the world is fast losing its sense of the oneness of the human family.

By Austen Ivereigh

October 4, 2020

Culture

Drinking Alone

Moving to a Rust Belt town taught me that real solidarity is harder than it looks.

By Jonathan Malesic

July 13, 2020

Books

D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic

Nature is central to this collection of D. H. Lawrence’s nonfiction, from New Mexican deserts to flowering Tuscan hills.

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October 10, 2020

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The 2020 Presidential Election

Amid the confusion created by the pandemic, one thing is clear: the 2020 election will be unlike any other. Here’s some of Commonweal’s best writing on the subject.

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