Rachel Sturges

Rachel Sturges is working on a collection of essays called Backyard Studies. She lives in Canton, New York, with her husband and two sons.

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A Wider Space

To what end was I at sixteen bent? Toward learning how to write, yes, but also toward making sense of my life and God’s place in it.

By Rachel Sturges

August 13, 2020

Theology

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Waterway

God is everywhere; for those who do not find him so easily in church pews, the ocean shore or a patterned turtle shell may be places to seek his presence.

By Rachel Sturges

May 16, 2020

Spirituality

Environment

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Feathers

What we find outside are physical manifestations of the holy, representative of the sloughing off of old skin, the salt of blood and the sea, signs of the divine.

December 23, 2019

Must Reads

Politics

Democracy in America?

The Republican Party under Donald Trump has abandoned even a minimal commitment to democratic government.

By The Editors

November 3, 2020

Religion

Soundtrack to an Encyclical

León Gieco’s Argentinian protest anthem might help us understand ‘Fratelli tutti.’

By Susan Bigelow Reynolds

October 29, 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

Religion

The Case of Theodore McCarrick

The whistle-blower in the McCarrick affair narrates the steps he took to report the former cardinal’s abusive behavior, but also the ways in which it was ignored

By Boniface Ramsey

February 16, 2019

Culture

Baptizing White Supremacy

An interview with Robert P. Jones examining the relationship of Christianity and white supremacy in America.

By Regina Munch

October 14, 2020

Culture

Taming the Demon

Our modern obsession with workplace efficiency has a simple answer: the prayerful, peaceful pace of Benedictine monastic labor

By Jonathan Malesic

February 2, 2019

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.

By George Scialabba

October 10, 2020

Books

No Longer Peripheral

Forget what Donald Trump says. For the past fifty years, it’s U.S. Latinos who have made American cities great.

By César J. Baldelomar

January 30, 2020

Collections

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.

By The Editors

September 11, 2020