Bridging the ideological divide
It isn’t easy to lower the temperature of our political discourse. But there are people working to help us have better conversations.
A different kind of poverty memoir
Dana Trent’s heartbreaking and hilarious book eschews the conventional American rags-to-riches arc.
De-commodifying time
Jenny Odell argues that we need to get back in touch with our preindustrial sense of time.
Capitalism everywhere
Lucia Hulsether explores how the global economic system has absorbed the very movements that seek to resist it.
A war correspondent’s view of conflict in the US
Luke Mogelson turns his keen powers of observation on the worsening polarization in this country.
A 21st-century Polish epic
Based on historical events, Olga Tokarczuk’s massive novel is simultaneously heartbreaking and comic.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Traveling to find home
Tom Fate’s essays present an ethically complicated journey of discovery.
We need to talk about climate change
Scientist Katharine Hayhoe recommends focusing on common ground and hope.
On the path to holiness with Dostoevsky
Paul Contino offers a hope-filled reading of The Brothers Karamazov.
Elegies for Jacki
Poet Peter Cooley logs the year following his wife’s death with courage and brutal honesty.
Fighting for the humanities at church-related colleges
“What good is a Methodist college that doesn't have religion professors?” asks one student.
When radical Latino activists occupied churches
Felipe Hinojosa profiles resistance movements from the late 1960s and early 1970s, when religion and politics were inextricably linked.
How a small group of activists took down the mining company destroying a Salvadoran watershed
This time, David beat Goliath.
A US son of Salvadoran parents explores his complex identity
Roberto Lovato’s harrowing memoir is a process of personal and collective unveiling.
Government denial is raising the stakes of COVID-19 in Nicaragua
Amid a disinformation campaign, churches are trying to provide education and aid.