Reconciliation
Photographer S. Billie Mandle confronts her Catholic past and the place of confessionals.
World as God: Nina Shengold interviewed by David van Biema
David Van Biema interviews Nina Shengold author of Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days.
Nina Shengold, Reservoir Year: A Walker’s Book of Days
On the eve of her sixtieth birthday, Nina Shengold embarks on a challenge: to walk the path surrounding the Catskills’ glorious Ashokan Reservoir every day for a year.
The Most Important Public Religion Issue of Our Time: The Creation of Interfaith America
Interfaith Youth Core Founder and President Eboo Patel on the necessity of being a “potluck nation, not a melting pot”.
Introducing The Commons
Our first issue of The Commons has critical takes, creative essays, a photo essay, an interview. And every month we’ll be bringing you more of these.
The Power of the Muslim Vote
Several political constituencies that are historically overlooked played an integral role in turning out in record numbers to swing the vote against Trump. One of these is the Muslim voting bloc.
In Memory of Touch
All of us are crafters now. Even if we are not sewing or baking or gardening, we are re-learning touch, buildings nests of soft blankets, clutching our warm coffee mugs, feeling our phones vibrate as we text friends and loved ones.
From creation to apocalypse every day: An interview with Dr. Rebecca S. Chopp
A university President and feminist theologian reflects on her work in higher education.
Truth in a Teacup
A writer and Lion’s Roar editor on holding a teabowl with your whole self.
Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for a Moral Revival
A project that uses documentary photographs by André Daughtry, official photographer for the Poor People’s Campaign, during the “40 Days of Moral Action” that took place in 38 state capitals in the summer of 2018.