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The border is everywhere
For example, it runs right through a detention center in Mississippi.
May 14, Easter 6a (John 14:15-21)
We need more than a simple “I love you.” So does Jesus.
How we care for dead bodies—or don’t
Cody Sanders and Mikeal Parsons yearn for a better theology around death, dying, and the body.
From observation to experience (John 14:1-14)
C. S. Lewis’s wisdom on looking along a beam of light, not at it
From a Western phenomenon to a truly global church
John McGreevy makes what could have become a dull textbook into a riveting narrative of Catholicism’s modern history.
Julian the theologian
We ignored her for hundreds of years. Then we reduced her to a slogan.
Ruth Bell Graham’s adjustments
Anne Blue Wills highlights the complexity of a woman convinced by her Christian culture that she was created by God to support her husband.
May 7, Easter 5a (John 14:1-14)
Jesus is the dam that holds us when the levee breaks.
Jedediah Purdy’s democratic vision
This formidable yet accessible book should be homework for every thoughtful American.
Jesus is traumatized
Minister and veteran David Peters invites us to consider our own post-traumatic identities in a new light.
The woman behind tarot’s strange beauty
I wonder how Pamela Colman Smith worked it out in reverse, led by her own creativity straight to the Catholic Church—the place I’ve tried to leave.
No justice in New Haven
Journalist Nicholas Dawidoff tells the tragic story of Bobby Johnson and his neighborhood on the poor, Black side of town.