Trending topics: Israel and Jewish identity
Books on the identity of Israel
Burial with dignity
Allison Meier sees cemeteries as great repositories of cultural history—and as spaces deserving of reverence.
Horror movie mom
When I watch a mother slay a monster and hustle her kids to safety, it never fails to satisfy.
Sister Holiday takes the heat
Margot Douaihy’s New Orleans is a fever dream. Her protagonist is a queer, punk nun who is all in on her vocation.
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.
The problem with artificial intelligence is us
As long as AI is trained on human behavior, it will tend to replicate our worst flaws.
Releasing our grip (Sirach 15:15-20; Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
So often we are trapped by our own imaginations.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words Wind and Splash.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words Wind and Splash.
Steadfast, resilient, and increasingly happy (2 Thessalonians 1:1-4, 11-12)
There’s a hard truth about existence in 2 Thessalonians 1 that social science bears out.
October 30, Ordinary 31C (Luke 19:1–10)
You want to see and be seen by Jesus? Sinner, get ready!
God’s promise to repay (Joel 2:23–32)
It is so tender that God would say God owes us one.
October 23, Ordinary 30C (Joel 2:23–32)
In Joel I encounter the God who has counted what I’ve lost and promised to pay it back.
Is Sinéad O’Connor a secular saint?
A new documentary positions the fiery iconoclast as a prophet ahead of her time.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words Hunt and Wind.