Ethical shopping suggestions from the CC editors.
At first I resented the costly repairs. Then I took a closer look.
The new givers are great. Their comments about why they give are even better.
Christmas can’t come soon enough for Tom.
The dialogue was good. The meal was even better.
To bridge our country’s divides, we need deep emotion rooted in moral complexity—not jokey white-bro solidarity.
The wise men remind us that stargazing always involves politics.
Jesus flips the script on his parents.
Mary gives us permission to pause and ponder what we hear.
The beauty of doing things by hand
What does it mean to make things, and why does it matter?
How Christian-Jewish intermarriage became normal
Samira Mehta shows how some interfaith families mediate diverse traditions.
We asked our contributing editors to each pick two.
A story that puts you in an Amazon warehouse worker’s shoes
Heike Geissler’s account of her time at Amazon is far more than a workplace exposé.
A Pennsylvania family destroyed by fracking
Eliza Griswold tells the story of an industry and the people it hurts.
Our narratives about nation-states
Is an organized state the pinnacle of progress? James Scott doesn’t think so.
How did Yemen arrive at this point?
The statue depicts Sardar Patel, an icon of India’s independence—whom the Bharatiya Janata Party has claimed as one of its own.
The new rules extend to institutions with religious or moral objections to providing insurance that covers contraception—but not to publicly traded businesses, government agencies, or government-funded health centers.
Copts, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt’s population, have seen increasing violence against them since 2013.
Globally, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community includes 10 to 20 million people with a message of “love for all, hatred for none.”
“She appears to be a person, in the words of Shakespeare’s King Lear, ‘more sinned against than sinning,’” the Supreme Court wrote in its ruling.
Keating was also known for his engagement in interreligious dialogue.