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Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.

On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.

Prayers for Children and the apophatic tradition

It was on a Friday in spring 2021 that Letta Cartlidge decided she had seen enough.

In her backyard in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, a stack of bangles on her arm and an oversized cardigan draped around her shoulders, Cartlidge explained to the Century how on April 15, 2021, James McDowell, a former principal at Hillcrest—a boarding school primarily for the children of missionaries in Jos, Nigeria—admitted in a private Facebook group for Hillcrest alumni that he had “molested” two students during his tenure.

My mother didn’t like the name Mary: too Catholic. And she didn’t much like my grandmother for whom I was named: too Baptist. But she did believe in giving her children proper names after their grandparents, so in the end, tradition won out. I was named Mary after my father’s Virginian mother but called Polly “for short,” even though it’s longer.

T. S. Eliot’s epic poem is a masterpiece—but what do we do with its view of classical Western tradition?

With the space race outsourced to astropreneurs, the final frontier is for sale to the wealthy few.