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

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

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

Article

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

Must Reads

Politics

Piety, Populism, and ‘Patriots’

Far-right websites catering to Catholics promote Christian nationalism under the guise of journalism.

By Paul Moses

January 8, 2021

Religion

Warnock’s Way

Rev. Raphael Warnock’s victory shows how a new moral majority—multiracial and interfaith—can begin to reclaim faith from the grip of reactionary white Christians.

By John Gehring

January 11, 2021

Culture

COVID Fatigue

“We do what we are supposed to do, walk the stage, say our lines. But the reality is that, even if we hit our marks, many of our patients will not survive.”

By Ebtesam Attaya Islam

January 14, 2021

Books

Apocalypse Now

A collection of essays by Elisa Gabbert explores how we respond collectively and individually to tragedy.

By Katherine Lucky

January 10, 2021

Books

‘Nameless Greatness’

Novelist Louise Erdrich’s latest book explores her Catholic and Ojibwe roots as it probes a painful period in recent Native American history.

By Anthony Domestico

August 7, 2020

Collections

Fratelli Tutti

A collection of Commonweal’s writing about ‘Fratelli tutti,’ Pope Francis’s most recent papal encyclical, including the symposium from the December 2020 issue.

By The Editors

November 17, 2020