Upside-down medicine
Jim O’Connell’s practice is built not on profit but on giving his patients—the unhoused of Boston—whatever time they need.
Understanding polyamory
The inclusivity trap
We keep turning women into monsters
I mourned Annie Dillard as if I knew her personally
Books
Makoto Fujimura sees God beckoning through art
Blessings for all
How judges made neoliberalism
A solution to evangelicalism’s PR problem?
News
In This Issue
October 11, Ordinary 28A (Matthew 22:1–14)
Church gossip and a pastor’s double life
Blessings for all
Voices
Benjamin J. Dueholm
Church gossip and a pastor’s double life
I’m obligated to a high standard of confidentiality. I also find the stories
on social media hard to resist.
Brian Bantum
My prayer for soldiers
I looked up to see a line of 50 kids in uniform boarding the plane. Every one of them had brown skin like mine.
Peter Choi
A gospel of belonging in Korea
It’s my first time here in decades, and I have been struck by the depth of relational intimacy on display everywhere I go.
Rachel Mann
From shame to gift
Humans have a special talent for screwing things up. I think acknowledging this offers liberation.
Kelly Brown Douglas
Sacred longing
Immigrants’ stories capture a deep desire for something better. Scripture shows that God longs for a better world, too.
Stephanie Saldaña
The wounds of Catholic women
When the Vatican rejected a bid to allow laypeople to preach at mass, I felt again the toll of being dismissed by the church I call home.
Politics
Intentional conflict
How judges made neoliberalism
