Features
Death’s vision
The unexpected gift of missional friendship
Driving my trans student to Planned Parenthood
The most important American Old Testament scholar of the last century is Norman Gottwald
Under Elon Musk’s authority
Voices
Samuel Wells
Unexpected revelation
My conversation partner may have been a prophet—or a quack. My job was simply to listen.
Philip Jenkins
For better or for worse, the church is keeping Haiti afloat
In the absence of strong political leadership, someone has to fill the void.
Books
Who’s doing our dirty work?
Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and meatpackers.
Does Catholic higher ed have to sell its soul?
A truly Catholic university, says James Heft, steers a course between secularization and insularity.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
Is it possible to tell the complete history of libraries?
Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen try in their impressive but Eurocentric volume.