Stephen Janis & Taya Graham, AFRO, Transparency Against Police Brutality
Eve Tushnet, America, The unique (and surprisingly spiritual) relationship between a dentist, a patient and one’s sense of self
Julius Krein, American Affairs, The Real Class War
Libby Emmons, The American Conservative, When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power
Michael Hendrix, The American Conservative, A Stronger America Needs 'Strong Towns' First
Addison del Mastro, The American Conservative, Is American Sprawl Already Bankrupt?
Tara Isabella Burton, The American Interest, The Neo-Paganism of Jordan Peterson
Leah Libresco Sargeant, The American Interest, A Playhouse Divided, on God and Trump
James Poulos, The American Mind, Is America Worth Saving?
Emma Green, The Atlantic, What Conservative Pastors Didn’t Say After El Paso
Chavi Eve Karkowsky, The Atlantic, I Found the Outer Limits of My Pro-choice Beliefs
Yara Bayoumy & Kathy Gilsanan, The Atlantic, A Reformed White Nationalist Says the Worst Is Yet to Come
Ken White, The Atlantic, Thirty-Two Short Stories About Death in Prison
Leslie Jamison, The Atlantic, The Quickening
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Tearing Down the Myth of the Rural White Voter
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, What Your Politics Do to Your Morals
Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, Evangelical Has Lost Its Meaning
Jamyla Krempel, Baltimore Beat, From Baltimore
Jonathan M Pitts, Baltimore Sun, In slavery, her family was owned by his. Now they attend a Baltimore church seeking to atone for its past.
Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, City’s secret passageways, crypts and other architectural gems on display with Doors Open Baltimore
Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, BSO music director Marin Alsop criticizes how symphony is run, hints she is “nearing the end” of her tenure
Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 125,000 kids in U.S. foster care await adoption. 32 celebrated ‘forever’ families Saturday in Baltimore
Casey Cep, The Believer, An Interview with Leslie Jamison
Meghan O'Gieblyn, Bookforum, Replaceable You
James G Chappel, Boston Review, Bad Romance
Krystie Lee Yandoli, Buzzfeed News, “The Good Place” Creator Michael Schur Explained The Real Message Of The Show
Tara Isabella Burton, Catapult, I Spent Years Searching for Magic—I Found God Instead
Carey Helmick, Catholic Herald, There's no excuse for letting school children go hungry
Joshua Heavin, Christ & Pop Culture, Following in the Footsteps of Sophie Scholl’s Misfit Messiah
Brad East, Christian Century, Seeing the crucified Christ in my wife's C-section
Michael J Gorman, Christian Century, A letter from Paul to Christians in the US
Jason Byassee, Christian Century, Rachel Held Evans, public theologian
Phil Christman, Christian Century, The deep roots of America's enchantment with capitalism
Collin Huber, CT, Put Not Your Trust in Credentials
Martyn Wendell Jones, CT, Depression Drowns Our Hope but Points Us to Truth
Jayson Georges, CT, There's More to Romans Than Personal Salvation
Karen Swallow Prior, CT, Kate Bowler: Why Christian Women Become Celebrity ‘Influencers’
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, The Necessary Partnership of Truth and Charity
Rachel Toor, Chronicle of Higher Education, Scholars Talk Writing: Stanley Hauerwas
Alan Jacobs, Comment, Prophet of the Human-Built World: An Introduction to John Ruskin
Katelyn Beaty, Comment, Proximity Over Punditry
Tim Markatos, Commonweal, No Room for Despair
Matthew Boudway, Commonweal, Dry Bones
Patricia Lockwood, The Cut, Patricia Lockwood’s Cat Doesn’t Always Speak in a French Accent
Rachel Darnall, Daughters of Sarah, Why I Am Not a Complementarian
Nanjala Nyabola, Disegno, Loose Strands
Sean Sheehan, Dublin Review of Books, Alarms and Excursions
Phillip Cary, Eclectic Theology, The Meaning of Protestant Theology
Fr Aiden Kimel, Eclectic Theology, ‘That All Shall Be Saved’: An Introductory Review
John Michael Greer, Ecosophia, The Next Twilight of Environmentalism
Diane Roth, Englewood Review of Books, Where is the Common Good?
Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN, Whatever happened to Villanova basketball star Shelly Pennefather? 'So I made this deal with God.'
Travis Montgomery, Exegetical Tools, How Does Christ Fulfill the Law? Kingship and Matthew 5
Kaitlyn Scheiss, Fathom, Invisible Labor
Matthew D Wright, First Things, The Good of Politics
Stanley Hauerwas, First Things, Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College
Brandon McGinley, First Things, Infant Baptism and the Logic of Liberalism
Elizabeth C Corey, First Things, Notes on Summer Camp
Robert W Jenson, First Things, How the World Lost Its Story
Ian Marcus Corbin, First Things, Rooted Cosmopolitanism
Emily Andrews, Forma Review, Maryanne Wolf's Positive Way Forward for the Modern, Distracted Reader
Anthony Barr, Forma Review, A Bundle of Hopes and Hungers
Russell Arben Fox, Front Porch Republic, Climate Change, Dirty Hands, and the Grace (and Hope) of Limits
Amanda Patchin, Front Porch Republic, The Pleasures of a Liturgical Calendar of Reading
Thabiti Anyabwile, TGC, 3 Ways to Spoil the Gospel
Matthew Lee Anderson, TGC, How Pornography Makes Us Less Human and Less Humane
Laura Glen Louis, Hudson Review, Blue Monotone
Nick Olson, Image, An American Body Politic
Myles Werntz, In All Things, Making Nothing of Evil, and Everything of God: A Review of That All Shall Be Saved, Part 1 and Part 2
Luke O'Neil, Intelligencer, What I’ve Learned From Collecting Stories of People Whose Loved Ones Were Transformed by Fox News
Leslie Jamison, Literary Review, Twice in Oslo
Ben Crosby, Living Church, The ACNA BCP 2019: A Critical Appreciation
Sara Fredman, Longreads, Mother/Russia
Laura Lippman, Longreads, Whole 60
Gerhard Stübben, Macrina Magazine, God's Affirmation of the Physical: The Meaning of Christ's Resurrection
Wesley Hill, Marginalia, Sex, Flesh, God: Towards a Theology of Carnal Life
Bridget Eileen, Meditations of a Traveling Nun, Christian, Lesbian, Sojourner: Keeping the Gospel in Focus
Alan Noble, Medium, On Living
Allegra Hobbes, Medium, The Self-Help Movement That Is Upending American Christianity
Myles Werntz, MereO, Christ Ever Present, But to What Church? Reviewing Phillip Cary’s “Meaning of Protestant Theology”
Myles Werntz, MereO, What Is a Nation?
Scott Beauchamp, MereO, An Intercourse with Ghosts: The Unabomber, Irony, and Terror
Susannah Black, MereO, Heroes of the Fourth Turning: the Possession of American Conservatism
Jake Meador, MereO, Book Review: Kids These Days by Malcolm Harris
Ian, Mockingbird, In the Midst of Life We Are in October
Toni Morrison, The Nation, No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The Nation, A Shared Place
Aaron Bady, The Nation, Jedediah Purdy Has an Idea That Could Save Us From Capitalism and the Climate Crisis
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, The Nation, Has Capitalism Become Our Religion?
Madeline Kearns, National Review, The Tragedy of the Trans Child
Gary Saul Morson, New Criterion, How the great truth dawned
Walter Shapiro, New Republic, Arguing the World
Samuel Earle, New Statesman, Heidegger, the homesick philosopher
Nate Chinen, NPR, A Lost Album From John Coltrane, With Thanks To A French-Canadian Director
Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, The Finale of "The Americans" Was Elegant, Poignant, and Unforgettable
Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, David French, Sohrab Ahmari, and the Battle for the Future of Conservativism
Batya Ungar-Sargon, New York Review of Books, A Tale of Two Churches
Agnes Callard, NYT, Why Philosophers Shouldn't Sign Petitions
Tara Isabella Burton, NYT, The Religious Hunger of the Radical Right
James Poniewozik, NYT, In ‘The Americans’ Finale, the Deepest Cuts Don’t Leave a Mark
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Abortion Mysticism of Pete Buttigieg
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Don't Let Climate Change Stop You From Becoming a Parent
Carl Zimmer, NYT, Birds Are Vanishing from North America
Winnie Hu & Andrea Salcedo, NYT, Cars All but Banned on One of Manhattan’s Busiest Streets
Nadja Popovich & Denise Lu, NYT, The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions in America
Anna Louie Sussman, NYT, The End of Babies
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, Our Schools Can’t Solve the Problems of Our Rigid Workweek
Agnes Callard, NYT, The Real Cost of Tweeting About My Kids
Ross Douthat, NYT, Social Media and the Populist Movement
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Case for Bernie
Tish Harrison Warren, NYT, Want to Get Into the Christmas Spirit? Face the Darkness
Ethan McLeod, NextCity, What Baltimore’s Plan to Redesign 11 Miles of Its Waterfront Means for Existing Communities
Katie Manning, The Other Journal, The Book of Fists
Bailey Pickens, The Outline, Marianne Williamson isn’t kooky, she’s just religious
BD McClay, The Outline, ‘Heroes of the Fourth Turning’ is a haunted play about religious conservatives
Rosa Lyster, The Outline, This essay is just Harry Potter for people who think comparing things to Harry Potter is stupid
Natalia Dashan, Palladium, The Real Problem At Yale Is Not Free Speech
Nina MacLaughlin, Paris Review, The Siren Song
Eve Tushnet, Patheos, We Don't Need No Water...
John Ehrett, Patheos, “Heroes of the Fourth Turning”: The One Play You Really, Really Need to See
Toni Morrison, Personal Blog, The Fisherwoman
Derek E Radney, Personal Blog, Embracing Infant Baptism: An Uncommon Path
Brad East, Plough, A Better Country
Eugene McCarraher, Plough, Comrade Ruskin
Phil Christman, Plough, So You Want to Be a Writer?
Jonathan Malesic, Plough, The Noonday Demon
John Rhodes, Plough, Anabaptist Technology
Agnes Callard, The Point, Do You Want My Garbage?
Agnes Callard, The Point, The Devil's Advocate's Advocate
Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman, The Point, On Choosing Life
Wesley Hill, The Point, Unnecessary Gifts
Agnes Callard, The Point, Half a Person
Agnes Callard, The Point, Parenting and Panic
Nate Chinen, Pitchfork, Blue World
Rawiya Kameir, Pitchfork, Kanye West: Jesus Is King
Emily Hill, Polygon, Bob and Linda Belcher are my marriage goals
Aaron Goldfarb, Punch, Who is Drunk Thomas Pynchon?
Lauren Winner, Relevant, Lauren Winner on Real Sex
Adelle M Banks, Religion News Service, Black clergy vows to forge their own path
R Stone, Religion News Service, James K.A. Smith: St. Augustine might just be the therapist we need today
Shea Serrano, The Ringer, “You Don’t Drink Scotch”: An Appreciation of ‘Scrubs’ and the Inimitable Dr. Cox
Anna Bauman & Lauren Hernández, San Francisco Chronicle, Witness to BART killing describes horror aboard the moving train
Namwali Serpell, Slate, On Black Difficulty
Ruth Graham, Slate, Rachael Denhollander’s Witness
Ashley Feinberg, Slate, This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account (Update: It Is)
Alan Jacobs, Snakes & Ladders, Christianity and capitalism reconsidered
John W Hawthorne, Sociological Reflections, Truman Burbank's "Deconversion"
Emily Esfahani Smith, TED Ideas, The two kinds of stories we tell ourselves
Ralph Smith, Theopolis, What Jeffrey Epstein Got Right
Helen Macdonald, Times Literary Supplement, Pigeon treat
Paul Kingsnorth, Tricycle, The Witness
Michael Zelenko, The Verge, The High Hopes of Low-Tech Phone
Bettina Makalintal, Vice, We Interviewed the Priest From the 'Hot Priest Summer' TikTok
Rachael Denhollander, Vox, I faced Larry Nassar in court. Epstein’s accusers should have had the same chance.
J Brian Charles, Vox, The New York Times 1619 Project is reshaping the conversation on slavery. Conservatives hate it.
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, The Americans has always been a show about faith
Hope Reese, Vox, A champion of the unplugged, earth-conscious life, Wendell Berry is still ahead of us
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Gemini Man, starring Will Smith, spells catastrophe for the future of movies
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, How Heroes of the Fourth Turning, about Catholic intellectuals, became one of fall’s buzziest plays
Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, The Meaning of Elizabeth’s Dream in The Americans Finale
Ekemini Uwan, WaPo, How Toni Morrison’s words pierced me, as a black Christian female writer
Erin Cox, WaPo, Years before Trump’s attacks, Freddie Gray’s death sparked a huge effort to heal Baltimore. It wasn’t enough.
Stacia L Brown, WaPo, Toni Morrison taught me that I owe myself my whole self
Tara Isabella Burton, WaPo, For Marianne Williamson and Donald Trump, religion is all about themselves
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, In God's country
Alyssa Rosenberg, WaPo, How TV made Christianity radical again
Hannah Knowles, WaPo, As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back
Pete Candler, WaPo, How an ancient African saint helped me make sense of 9/11
Veery Huleatt, WaPo, Progressive seminary students offered a confession to plants. How do we think about sins against nature?
Jemar Tisby, WaPo, White Christians, do not cheapen the hug and message of forgiveness from Botham Jean’s brother
Gillian Brockell, WaPo, Here are all the things I didn't know about stillbirth, until it happened to me
James K A Smith, WaPo, Trump's evangelical advisers are promoting Paula White, but here's the book they should really read
Michael F Bird, WaPo, Jesus isn't interested in America's two-party division
Wesley Hill, Writing in the Dust, Division and Reunion
Monday, December 2, 2019
Monday, August 5, 2019
Summertime and the reading is plenty
Tara Isabella Burton, America, What do millennials want from religion? Three shows have the answer.
Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative, Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction
Mandy Lee Catron, The Atlantic, What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
Emma Green, The Atlantic, When Your Pregnancy Is Political
Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Nationalists Take Washington
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, The Future of the City is Childless
Faith Hill, The Atlantic, They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While, It Worked.
Angela N Carroll, Baltimore Magazine, What Pennsylvania Avenue’s Official Arts District Designation Means for the Community
The Editors, Baltimore Sun, Better to have a few rats than to be one
Kaitlyn Schiess, Christ & Pop Culture, Booksmart and Female Ambition
Amanda Kolson Hurley, CityLab, What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, CityLab, In Trump vs. Baltimore, No One Is Winning
John Blake, CNN, What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore
Matthew Milliner, Comment, Richard Rohr: A Field Guide
Kate Shellnut, CT, Amazon Sold $240K of ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary’ Fakes, Publisher Says
Heath W Carter, CT, Drilling for Oil, Contending for Truth
Ed Shaw, CT, Celibate Gay Christians: Neither Shockingly Conservative nor Worryingly Liberal
Timothy Dalrymple, CT, On Court Prophets and Wilderness Prophets
Mark Galli, CT, And Now, the Star of the Show...
Abigail Murrish, CT, Both Purity Culture and Hook-Up Culture Failed Me
Kutter Callaway, CT, Boomers, Take It from Woody or Iron Man: It’s Time to Pass the Torch
Abby Perry, Curator, Surrendering a Shoebox
Cary Aspinwall, Dave Boucher & Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life
Kate Storey, Esquire, Susan Was Seinfeld's Most Tragic Character. Today, She Teaches Ukulele.
Tommy Welty, Fathom, Helplessness Blues
Jake Meador, First Things, The Nashville Statement and the PCA
Eve Fairbanks, HuffPost Highline, Behold, the Millennial Nuns
Adam Roberts, Image, First Men and Original Sins
David Ehrlich, IndieWire, ‘The Lion King’ Review: Disney’s Remake Is a Disastrous Plunge into the Uncanny Valley
Aaron Gordon, Jalopnik, The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Would Turn Sidewalks Into Cages If It Could
Eve Tushnet, Kirk Center, A Justified Confessions
Joel Looper, LARB, How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?
Helen Dale, Law & Liberty, Return of the Pagans
Micah Meadowcroft, Law & Liberty, Rangers and Hobbits: Towards Liberal Arts for the Common Good
Michael Washburn, Longreads, Tom Petty's Problematic Album 'Southern Accents'
Susie Mendoza, McSweeney's, The Biggest Challenge of Parenting Is Becoming a Human Meat Suit
Tara Isabella Burton, MereO, Rise of the Titans: Fascism, Christianity, and the Seduction of the Brutal
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Liturgical Jigs and Millennial Burnout
Jake Meador, MereO, Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Augustinianism and Audience in “In Search of the Common Good”
Marybeth Baggett, Moral Apologetics, In Defense of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Response to Jessica Hooten Wilson
Andrea Long Chu, n+1, The Pink
Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis, After Technopoly
Jill Lepore, New Yorker, The Lingering of Loss
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, Going Home with Wendell Berry
Nicole King, Newsweek, Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth—and He Knows It
Costica Bradatan, NYT, Democracy Is for the Gods
John Eligon, NYT, When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Meaning of Marianne Williamson
Michael Wear, NYT, Democrats Shouldn’t Be So Certain About Abortion
Leana S Wen, NYT, Why I Left Planned Parenthood
Dan Brooks, The Outline, Manly wedding rings for tough guys who are dudes
Sam Adler-Bell, The Outline, What's left of liberalism?
CJ Hauser, Paris Review, The Crane Wife
Emily Wolfe, Pittsburgh City Paper, Pennsylvania’s hottest Twitter account right now is … the state treasury department
Phil Christman, Plough, Poetry and Prophecy, Dust and Ashes
Martyn Wendell Jones, Plough, You Can't Go Home Again
Agnes Callard, The Point, Spoiled Rich Kids
Tim Alberta, Politico, ‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump
Agata Kasprolewicz, Przekrój, Mao and the Sparrows
Ian Paul, Psephizo, Does your faith have a crumple zone?
Haley Stewart, Public Discourse, Can We Justify Bringing Children into This Dark World?
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, In Brooklyn, ‘tradpunk’ Christianity meets millennial counterculture
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Against pop culture
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Pop culture, for and against
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Questions for Jake Meador after reading his lovely new book
Ekemini Uwan, Sistamatic Theology, Say My Name
Laura Turner, Slate, Sixteen and Evangelical
Lawrence Lanahan, Slate, Trump Tried to Build a Wall Around West Baltimore
Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian, The Smell of Newborn Babies Triggers the Same Reward Centers as Drugs
John W Hawthorne, Sociological Reflections, Evangelical Influencers and Evangelical Populism
Fraser Myers, Spiked, Meet the anti-woke left
Glenn O'Brien, Spin, Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview, Tom Waits for No Man
Jane Coaston, Vox, A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?
Laura Turner, Vox, Couples all over Instagram are “doing life together.” Here’s where it came from.
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Dear Clare: I can’t wait to welcome you to the world. I have so much I want to show you.
Matthew Walther, The Week, The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Will evangelicals thwart Trump's unchristian refugee ban?
Cliff Sosis & Agnes Callard, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?, Agnes Callard Interview
Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative, Virtue and Vice in an Age of Addiction
Mandy Lee Catron, The Atlantic, What You Lose When You Gain a Spouse
Emma Green, The Atlantic, When Your Pregnancy Is Political
Emma Green, The Atlantic, The Nationalists Take Washington
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, The Future of the City is Childless
Faith Hill, The Atlantic, They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While, It Worked.
Angela N Carroll, Baltimore Magazine, What Pennsylvania Avenue’s Official Arts District Designation Means for the Community
The Editors, Baltimore Sun, Better to have a few rats than to be one
Kaitlyn Schiess, Christ & Pop Culture, Booksmart and Female Ambition
Amanda Kolson Hurley, CityLab, What Internet Memes Get Wrong About Breezewood, Pennsylvania
Karsonya Wise Whitehead, CityLab, In Trump vs. Baltimore, No One Is Winning
John Blake, CNN, What both the left and the right get wrong about my neighborhood in Baltimore
Matthew Milliner, Comment, Richard Rohr: A Field Guide
Kate Shellnut, CT, Amazon Sold $240K of ‘Liturgy of the Ordinary’ Fakes, Publisher Says
Heath W Carter, CT, Drilling for Oil, Contending for Truth
Ed Shaw, CT, Celibate Gay Christians: Neither Shockingly Conservative nor Worryingly Liberal
Timothy Dalrymple, CT, On Court Prophets and Wilderness Prophets
Mark Galli, CT, And Now, the Star of the Show...
Abigail Murrish, CT, Both Purity Culture and Hook-Up Culture Failed Me
Kutter Callaway, CT, Boomers, Take It from Woody or Iron Man: It’s Time to Pass the Torch
Abby Perry, Curator, Surrendering a Shoebox
Cary Aspinwall, Dave Boucher & Cassandra Jaramillo, Dallas News, 'You're gonna kill me!': Dallas police body cam footage reveals the final minutes of Tony Timpa's life
Kate Storey, Esquire, Susan Was Seinfeld's Most Tragic Character. Today, She Teaches Ukulele.
Tommy Welty, Fathom, Helplessness Blues
Jake Meador, First Things, The Nashville Statement and the PCA
Eve Fairbanks, HuffPost Highline, Behold, the Millennial Nuns
Adam Roberts, Image, First Men and Original Sins
David Ehrlich, IndieWire, ‘The Lion King’ Review: Disney’s Remake Is a Disastrous Plunge into the Uncanny Valley
Aaron Gordon, Jalopnik, The Autonomous Vehicle Industry Would Turn Sidewalks Into Cages If It Could
Eve Tushnet, Kirk Center, A Justified Confessions
Joel Looper, LARB, How Would Bonhoeffer Vote?
Helen Dale, Law & Liberty, Return of the Pagans
Micah Meadowcroft, Law & Liberty, Rangers and Hobbits: Towards Liberal Arts for the Common Good
Michael Washburn, Longreads, Tom Petty's Problematic Album 'Southern Accents'
Susie Mendoza, McSweeney's, The Biggest Challenge of Parenting Is Becoming a Human Meat Suit
Tara Isabella Burton, MereO, Rise of the Titans: Fascism, Christianity, and the Seduction of the Brutal
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Liturgical Jigs and Millennial Burnout
Jake Meador, MereO, Against the Political Atheists: On the Safety of the Dead Consensus
Jake Meador, MereO: Commonplaces, Augustinianism and Audience in “In Search of the Common Good”
Marybeth Baggett, Moral Apologetics, In Defense of Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead: A Response to Jessica Hooten Wilson
Andrea Long Chu, n+1, The Pink
Alan Jacobs, The New Atlantis, After Technopoly
Jill Lepore, New Yorker, The Lingering of Loss
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, Going Home with Wendell Berry
Nicole King, Newsweek, Trump's Dehumanizing Attacks on Baltimore Are Hiding an Awful Truth—and He Knows It
Costica Bradatan, NYT, Democracy Is for the Gods
John Eligon, NYT, When ‘Black Lives Matter’ Is Invoked in the Abortion Debate
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Meaning of Marianne Williamson
Michael Wear, NYT, Democrats Shouldn’t Be So Certain About Abortion
Leana S Wen, NYT, Why I Left Planned Parenthood
Dan Brooks, The Outline, Manly wedding rings for tough guys who are dudes
Sam Adler-Bell, The Outline, What's left of liberalism?
CJ Hauser, Paris Review, The Crane Wife
Emily Wolfe, Pittsburgh City Paper, Pennsylvania’s hottest Twitter account right now is … the state treasury department
Phil Christman, Plough, Poetry and Prophecy, Dust and Ashes
Martyn Wendell Jones, Plough, You Can't Go Home Again
Agnes Callard, The Point, Spoiled Rich Kids
Tim Alberta, Politico, ‘Mother Is Not Going to Like This’: The 48 Hours That Almost Brought Down Trump
Agata Kasprolewicz, Przekrój, Mao and the Sparrows
Ian Paul, Psephizo, Does your faith have a crumple zone?
Haley Stewart, Public Discourse, Can We Justify Bringing Children into This Dark World?
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, In Brooklyn, ‘tradpunk’ Christianity meets millennial counterculture
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Against pop culture
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Pop culture, for and against
Brad East, Resident Theologian, Questions for Jake Meador after reading his lovely new book
Ekemini Uwan, Sistamatic Theology, Say My Name
Laura Turner, Slate, Sixteen and Evangelical
Lawrence Lanahan, Slate, Trump Tried to Build a Wall Around West Baltimore
Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian, The Smell of Newborn Babies Triggers the Same Reward Centers as Drugs
John W Hawthorne, Sociological Reflections, Evangelical Influencers and Evangelical Populism
Fraser Myers, Spiked, Meet the anti-woke left
Glenn O'Brien, Spin, Tom Waits: Our 1985 Interview, Tom Waits for No Man
Jane Coaston, Vox, A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?
Laura Turner, Vox, Couples all over Instagram are “doing life together.” Here’s where it came from.
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Dear Clare: I can’t wait to welcome you to the world. I have so much I want to show you.
Matthew Walther, The Week, The Jeffrey Epstein case is why people believe in Pizzagate
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Will evangelicals thwart Trump's unchristian refugee ban?
Cliff Sosis & Agnes Callard, What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?, Agnes Callard Interview
Friday, July 5, 2019
End of May to July 4
Matthew B Crawford, American Affairs, Algorithmic Governance and Political Legitimacy
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative, Feasting Even During Ordinary Time
Tara Isabella Burton, The American Interest, The Rise of Progressive Occultism
Fr. Stephen Freeman, Ancient Faith, You Have One Job – Pray – On Behalf of All and for All
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Michael Wear, The Atlantic, The Abortion Debate is No Longer About Policy
Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, What a Clash Between Conservatives Reveals
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Joe Biden's Tell on Abortion
Jedidiah Purdy, The Atlantic, A Nature Writer for the Anthropocene
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum
Lyman Stone, The Atlantic, The Boomers Ruined Everything
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Christ in the Camps
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
Kate Bowler, The Atlantic, How to Speak to Someone Who's Suffering
Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
Ed Simon, The Baffler, In the Hands of Angry Gods
Lisa Snowden-McCray, Baltimore Beat, In Baltimore, Accountability Has Become A Progressive Cause: A conversation with Bill Henry
Mar Ruetter, Baltimore Brew, Demolishing Cab Calloway’s house to make way for a park is shortsighted, critics say
Fern Shen, Baltimore Brew, Hampden bike crash victim, who faced many struggles, recalled as a generous soul
Lauren Cohen, Baltimore Magazine, The Iconic Marble Bar is Being Revived Into a Community Cafe
Ron Cassie, Baltimore Magazine, Coming Clean
Shelley Halstead, Baltimore Sun, Development plan recycles poverty in Baltimore
Vicky Baker, BBC News, The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Believer, Good Shepherds
Tara Isabella Burton, Catapult, The Gospel According to Fleabag
Jose Mena, Catholic Herald, The Catholic turn to socialism is something to celebrate
Michael Martin, Center for Sophiological Studies, Christian Neopaganism for Dummies
Claire Fyrqvist, Church Life Journal, Are Real-Life Pro-Lifers Only Pro-Birth?
Ian Klaus, CityLab, To Understand American Political Anger, Look to ‘Peripheral France’
Anne Snyder, Comment, Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian's Privilege
Hannah LaGrand, Comment, A Tidy Mind
Matthew Loftus, Comment, When the City of Man is Redlined
Andrew J Bacevich, Commonweal, Pundit on a Pilgrimage
Chloe Watlington, Commune, Who Owns Tomorrow?
Wesley Hill, Covenant, Respecting the Mystery: On Christian Doctrine
Sarah Miller, The Cut, The Best Abortion Ever
Kate Shellnut, CT, How Can Today’s Pro-Life Christians Build Trust in the Movement?
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, Pro-Lifers Aren't Hypocrites
Jessica Hooten Wilson, CT, The Devil Lives in the Mirror
Andrew Wilson, CT, Bringing a Tent Peg to a Sword Fight
Tommy Welty, Curator, The Hand the Feeds You
Fr. Brian Davies, The Dominican Friars, Preacher's Panic
Laura Lundgren, Fathom, The Fruitful Tension of Paradox
Carl R Trueman, First Things, Blessing When Cursed
Obianuju Ekeocha, First Things, Murder Disguised as Care
David Kern, Forma, For Sarah Ruden and Emily Wilson Translating the Great Books is an Act of Love
John Médaille, Front Porch Republic, Abortion: Realpolitik, Kulturkampf, and Evangelization
DL Mayfield, Front Porch Republic, Blessed Are the Working Poor
Judith Viorst, Glamour, How to Be Happy? A Nearly 90-Year-Old Has Some Advice
Addison Del Mastro, Kirk Center, Americans' Dignity, and the Nation's Shame
Micah Meadowcroft, Kirk Center, The Revolution Is Still Permanent
Brad East, LARB, Enter Paul: On Paula Fredriksen’s “Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle” and “When Christians Were Jews”
Madeline Lane-McKinley, LARB, Unthinking the Family in “Full Surrogacy Now”
Marissa R Moss, LA Times, Lil Nas X's ‘Old Town Road’ sounds like country’s future. So why has Nashville snubbed it?
Emily Temple, LitHub, Ulysses: Good or Bad?
Wesley Hill, Living Church, Reveling in Hope
Alicia Oltuski, McSweeney's, I Like My Anxiety Like I Like My Books
Chas Gillespie, McSweeney's, Every NIMBY's Speech at a Public Hearing
Ahmed Amer, McSweney's, I Finally Got a Company-Branded Thermos and All It Took Was Five Years of Wage Slavery
Rebecca Saltzman, McSweeney's, I Believe Every Child is Precious, Except for the Ones We're Locking Up in Cages
Jake Meador, MereO, David French and the Revolutionary Style in Conservative Journalism
Susannah Black, MereO, Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed.
Brad East, MereO, Five Theses on Preaching
Susannah Black, MereO, On Nick Kristof, Jean Vanier, and Human Resources
Jonathan Cole, MereO, Political Theology in an Age of Discontent
Jake Meador, MereO, Book Review: Dignity by Chris Arnade
Hannah Anderson, MereO, Book Review: My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake Meador, MereO, Post-Liberalism and American Racism
Sean O'Hare, MereO, A Call to Remembrance: Notre Dame and the Internet Age
Rachel M Cohen, The Nation, The Radical Teachers' Movement Comes to Baltimore
Ian Leslie, New Statesman, We know a lot less than we think about the world – which explains the allure of “simplism”
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 'Booksmart,' Reviewed: Olivia Wilde's Toothless Teen Comedy
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, How Republicans Hurt the Fight Against Abortion
Nellie Bowles, NYT, These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns.
Ross Douthat, NYT, What Are Conservatives Actually Debating?
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Politics of Dystopia
Katelyn Beaty, NYT, How Should Christians Have Sex?
Jill Lepore, NYT, Fifty Years Ago We Landed on the Moon. Why Should We Care Now?
Sandra Song, Paper, How Country Continues to Erase Lil Nas X
Andy Matuschak, Personal Blog, Why books don't work
Matthew Loftus, Plough, The Birthday Party at the End of the World
Agnes Callard, The Point, Persuade or Be Persuaded
Luma Simms, Public Discourse, Conservative Women and the Intra-Conservatism Debate
Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope Newsletter, A difficult day
Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon On Why She Stopped Believing in God
Ryan P Burge, Religion in Public, Which Party Has Become More Polarized on Abortion?
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, Can witches and consumer culture coexist?
Tish Harrison Warren, Religion News Service, In my church, some of us voted for President Trump. All of us pray for him.
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, There's more to wellness than looking pretty
Josephine Wolff, Slate, (Almost) Never Pay the Ransom
Kevin Arceneaux, Bert N Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, Slate, We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, Hitting All the Right Notes
Susan Miller, USA Today, The young are regarded as the most tolerant generation. That's why results of this LGBTQ survey are 'alarming'
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Booksmart is like Superbad, but with girls and better
Jane Coaston, Vox, The intersectionality wars
Jane Coaston, Vox, David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Want millennials to get married and have babies? Change the policies that stop us.
Tara Isabella Burton, WaPo, A notorious pickup artist found God. Lots of angry white radicals do.
Christine Emba, WaPo, Men are in trouble. 'Incels' are proof.
Jessica M Goldstein, WaPo, How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream
Kate Bowler, WaPo, Living a chronic life in a fix-it-now world
Patrick J Deneen, WaPo, A defense of conservatism that veers toward liberalism
Lisa Snowden-McCray, WaPo, A local's guide to Baltimore
Matthew Walther, The Week, America is an empire, not a nation
Matthew Walther, The Week, Everyone is wrong about socialism
Matthew Walther, The Week, A striking, joyful portrait of America's greatest divide
Matthew Walther, The Week, The conservative civil war won't change anything
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week, The conservative case against capitalism
Dante Stewart, The Witness, To Shape A New World: William Seymour and Black Faith in the Drama of Civil Rights – Part 1, Part 2
Gracy Olmstead, The American Conservative, Feasting Even During Ordinary Time
Tara Isabella Burton, The American Interest, The Rise of Progressive Occultism
Fr. Stephen Freeman, Ancient Faith, You Have One Job – Pray – On Behalf of All and for All
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption
Michael Wear, The Atlantic, The Abortion Debate is No Longer About Policy
Alan Jacobs, The Atlantic, What a Clash Between Conservatives Reveals
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Joe Biden's Tell on Abortion
Jedidiah Purdy, The Atlantic, A Nature Writer for the Anthropocene
Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, The Illiberal Right Throws a Tantrum
Lyman Stone, The Atlantic, The Boomers Ruined Everything
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic, Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, Christ in the Camps
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Imagining Post-Trump Nationalism
Kate Bowler, The Atlantic, How to Speak to Someone Who's Suffering
Peter Wehner, The Atlantic, The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity
Ed Simon, The Baffler, In the Hands of Angry Gods
Lisa Snowden-McCray, Baltimore Beat, In Baltimore, Accountability Has Become A Progressive Cause: A conversation with Bill Henry
Mar Ruetter, Baltimore Brew, Demolishing Cab Calloway’s house to make way for a park is shortsighted, critics say
Fern Shen, Baltimore Brew, Hampden bike crash victim, who faced many struggles, recalled as a generous soul
Lauren Cohen, Baltimore Magazine, The Iconic Marble Bar is Being Revived Into a Community Cafe
Ron Cassie, Baltimore Magazine, Coming Clean
Shelley Halstead, Baltimore Sun, Development plan recycles poverty in Baltimore
Vicky Baker, BBC News, The preachers getting rich from poor Americans
Meghan O'Gieblyn, The Believer, Good Shepherds
Tara Isabella Burton, Catapult, The Gospel According to Fleabag
Jose Mena, Catholic Herald, The Catholic turn to socialism is something to celebrate
Michael Martin, Center for Sophiological Studies, Christian Neopaganism for Dummies
Claire Fyrqvist, Church Life Journal, Are Real-Life Pro-Lifers Only Pro-Birth?
Ian Klaus, CityLab, To Understand American Political Anger, Look to ‘Peripheral France’
Anne Snyder, Comment, Persuading in a Divided Age: The Christian's Privilege
Hannah LaGrand, Comment, A Tidy Mind
Matthew Loftus, Comment, When the City of Man is Redlined
Andrew J Bacevich, Commonweal, Pundit on a Pilgrimage
Chloe Watlington, Commune, Who Owns Tomorrow?
Wesley Hill, Covenant, Respecting the Mystery: On Christian Doctrine
Sarah Miller, The Cut, The Best Abortion Ever
Kate Shellnut, CT, How Can Today’s Pro-Life Christians Build Trust in the Movement?
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, Pro-Lifers Aren't Hypocrites
Jessica Hooten Wilson, CT, The Devil Lives in the Mirror
Andrew Wilson, CT, Bringing a Tent Peg to a Sword Fight
Tommy Welty, Curator, The Hand the Feeds You
Fr. Brian Davies, The Dominican Friars, Preacher's Panic
Laura Lundgren, Fathom, The Fruitful Tension of Paradox
Carl R Trueman, First Things, Blessing When Cursed
Obianuju Ekeocha, First Things, Murder Disguised as Care
David Kern, Forma, For Sarah Ruden and Emily Wilson Translating the Great Books is an Act of Love
John Médaille, Front Porch Republic, Abortion: Realpolitik, Kulturkampf, and Evangelization
DL Mayfield, Front Porch Republic, Blessed Are the Working Poor
Judith Viorst, Glamour, How to Be Happy? A Nearly 90-Year-Old Has Some Advice
Addison Del Mastro, Kirk Center, Americans' Dignity, and the Nation's Shame
Micah Meadowcroft, Kirk Center, The Revolution Is Still Permanent
Brad East, LARB, Enter Paul: On Paula Fredriksen’s “Paul: The Pagans’ Apostle” and “When Christians Were Jews”
Madeline Lane-McKinley, LARB, Unthinking the Family in “Full Surrogacy Now”
Marissa R Moss, LA Times, Lil Nas X's ‘Old Town Road’ sounds like country’s future. So why has Nashville snubbed it?
Emily Temple, LitHub, Ulysses: Good or Bad?
Wesley Hill, Living Church, Reveling in Hope
Alicia Oltuski, McSweeney's, I Like My Anxiety Like I Like My Books
Chas Gillespie, McSweeney's, Every NIMBY's Speech at a Public Hearing
Ahmed Amer, McSweney's, I Finally Got a Company-Branded Thermos and All It Took Was Five Years of Wage Slavery
Rebecca Saltzman, McSweeney's, I Believe Every Child is Precious, Except for the Ones We're Locking Up in Cages
Jake Meador, MereO, David French and the Revolutionary Style in Conservative Journalism
Susannah Black, MereO, Rise up, wretched man: enough tears have flowed.
Brad East, MereO, Five Theses on Preaching
Susannah Black, MereO, On Nick Kristof, Jean Vanier, and Human Resources
Jonathan Cole, MereO, Political Theology in an Age of Discontent
Jake Meador, MereO, Book Review: Dignity by Chris Arnade
Hannah Anderson, MereO, Book Review: My Father Left Me Ireland by Michael Brendan Dougherty
Jake Meador, MereO, Post-Liberalism and American Racism
Sean O'Hare, MereO, A Call to Remembrance: Notre Dame and the Internet Age
Rachel M Cohen, The Nation, The Radical Teachers' Movement Comes to Baltimore
Ian Leslie, New Statesman, We know a lot less than we think about the world – which explains the allure of “simplism”
Richard Brody, New Yorker, 'Booksmart,' Reviewed: Olivia Wilde's Toothless Teen Comedy
Gracy Olmstead, NYT, How Republicans Hurt the Fight Against Abortion
Nellie Bowles, NYT, These Millennials Got New Roommates. They’re Nuns.
Ross Douthat, NYT, What Are Conservatives Actually Debating?
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Politics of Dystopia
Katelyn Beaty, NYT, How Should Christians Have Sex?
Jill Lepore, NYT, Fifty Years Ago We Landed on the Moon. Why Should We Care Now?
Sandra Song, Paper, How Country Continues to Erase Lil Nas X
Andy Matuschak, Personal Blog, Why books don't work
Matthew Loftus, Plough, The Birthday Party at the End of the World
Agnes Callard, The Point, Persuade or Be Persuaded
Luma Simms, Public Discourse, Conservative Women and the Intra-Conservatism Debate
Michael Wear, Reclaiming Hope Newsletter, A difficult day
Tyler Huckabee, Relevant, Bestselling Author R.O. Kwon On Why She Stopped Believing in God
Ryan P Burge, Religion in Public, Which Party Has Become More Polarized on Abortion?
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, Can witches and consumer culture coexist?
Tish Harrison Warren, Religion News Service, In my church, some of us voted for President Trump. All of us pray for him.
Tara Isabella Burton, Religion News Service, There's more to wellness than looking pretty
Josephine Wolff, Slate, (Almost) Never Pay the Ransom
Kevin Arceneaux, Bert N Bakker, Claire Gothreau, and Gijs Schumacher, Slate, We Tried to Publish a Replication of a Science Paper in Science. The Journal Refused.
Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, Hitting All the Right Notes
Susan Miller, USA Today, The young are regarded as the most tolerant generation. That's why results of this LGBTQ survey are 'alarming'
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Booksmart is like Superbad, but with girls and better
Jane Coaston, Vox, The intersectionality wars
Jane Coaston, Vox, David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Want millennials to get married and have babies? Change the policies that stop us.
Tara Isabella Burton, WaPo, A notorious pickup artist found God. Lots of angry white radicals do.
Christine Emba, WaPo, Men are in trouble. 'Incels' are proof.
Jessica M Goldstein, WaPo, How one critic’s once-iconoclastic views about television’s ascendancy went mainstream
Kate Bowler, WaPo, Living a chronic life in a fix-it-now world
Patrick J Deneen, WaPo, A defense of conservatism that veers toward liberalism
Lisa Snowden-McCray, WaPo, A local's guide to Baltimore
Matthew Walther, The Week, America is an empire, not a nation
Matthew Walther, The Week, Everyone is wrong about socialism
Matthew Walther, The Week, A striking, joyful portrait of America's greatest divide
Matthew Walther, The Week, The conservative civil war won't change anything
Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week, The conservative case against capitalism
Dante Stewart, The Witness, To Shape A New World: William Seymour and Black Faith in the Drama of Civil Rights – Part 1, Part 2
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
OH JEEZ
This is everything I read in March and April and most of May, from Baltimore to Philly to New York to Kenya. Too many to sort by topic, sorting by outlet instead:
Charles Lindholm & John A Hall, ABC Religion & Ethics, Frank Capra meets John Doe: Politics and anti-politics in American film
NT Wright, ABC Relgion & Ethics, Cross and kingdom: Putting the Christian story together again
Susan Neiman, ABC Relgion & Ethics, The rationality of the world: A philosophical reading of the Book of Job
Patrick Gilger, America, Review: Remaining faithful to fragile gifts
Eve Tushnet, America, The value of public penance in the age of clerical abuse, mass incarceration and #MeToo
Adrian Vermeule, American Affairs, Integration from Within
Charles Fain Lehman, The American Conservative, Reversing the Baby Bust
Anthony Paletta, The American Conservative, Why Baltimore Abandoned Johns Hopkins' Humane Vision
Leah Libresco Sargent, The American Interest, Orpheus and the Wall
Leah Libresco Sargent, The American Interest, Your Roots Shall Make Ye Free
Shadi Hamid, American Mind, Crisis of the Creed Divided
Nicholas Gross, Arc Digital, Left-Wing Identity Politics vs. Right-Wing Localism
Michael Wear, The Atlantic, The Abortion Debate Needs Moral Lament
Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic, The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America
Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, The Western Erasure of African Tragedy
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, The Truth About People Who Have No Personality
John McWhorter, The Atlantic, Freedom Am Won: A Linguistic Mystery
David Sims, The Atlantic, A Movie Like 'The Matrix' Might Never Happen Again
Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, They Had It Coming
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, Is This the End of Recycling?
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, ‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’
John McWhorter, The Atlantic, It Wasn’t ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, How 'Old Town Road' Transforms the Listener
Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic, Pete Buttigieg Isn’t Just Winning Over People on the Internet
Rainesford Staufer, The Atlantic, Why More Couples Are Getting Married by a Friend
Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
Rosa Inoncencio Smith, The Atlantic, Writing the Pulitzer-Winning 'The Overstory' Changed Richard Powers’s Life
Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
Alexis C Madrigal, The Atlantic, The Images That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral
Alexis C Madrigal, The Atlantic, Twitter Is Not America
Emma Green, The Atlantic, How Sri Lanka's Christians Became a Target
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels
Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?
W Bradford Wilcox & Lyman Stone, The Atlantic, The Happiness Recession
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, The Agony and Ecstasy of 'Fleabag'
Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, I’ve Never Watched 'Game of Thrones.' But Here’s What I Know
Margaret Tucker, The Atlantic, The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
Erica X Eisen, Altas Obscura, The Very Real Search for the Bible's Mythical Manna
Fern Shen & Mark Reutter, Baltimore Brew, Pugh’s downfall was propelled by her ineffective leadership
Melody Simmons, Baltimore Business Journal, 'Don't take our market from us,' Mondawmin residents say of Shoppers
Ron Cassie, Baltimore Magazine, Hell and High Water
Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, Brick Hill community, hidden in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, lists rare home for sale
Nia Hampton, BMore Art, Reading Claudia Rankine’s Citizen in 2019
Maura Callahan, BmoreArt, Notre Dame on Fire: An Absurdist Tragicomedy
Rosie Gray, Buzzfeed, 'Get Out While You Can'
Laura Turner, Buzzfeed, Why Rachel Held Evans Meant So Much To So Many
Julia Blackburn, Caught by the River, Time Song (excerpt)
Michael Wear, Catapult, My Hope as a Parent Is Something I Share with My Birth Mother
Kaitlyn Scheiss, Christ & Pop Culture, Melodies of Sin and Salvation: Why Modern Worship Music Needs a More Holistic View of Salvation
Abigail Murrish, Christ & Pop Culture, All the Foods I've Failed to Eat
Travis Roberts, Christ & Pop Culture, God of the Belly: Wasting away in the World of First Reformed
Francesca A Murphy, Church Life Journal, Liturgy and Slaughter in the Book of Revelation
Abigail Favale, Church Life Journal, The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Church Life Journal, Pushing Back Against Marilynne Robinson's Theology
Katharine Dell, Church Times, 'The Bible is not a paper Pope'
Oren Cass, City Journal, How the Other Half Learns
Sarah Holder, CityLab, An App For Mapping Crime, or Urban Paranoia?
Fred Scharmen, CityLab, Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future
Doug Sikkema, Comment, Twelve Rules for the Bookish Life
John Wilson, Comment, In Praise of Miscellany
Mark Mulder, Comment, A Damnable Shame
Shaun Ross, Comment, Lords of Misrule
Jeff Haanen, Comment, Dreading Monday
Sarah Dahl, Comment, Selling Our Birthright for a Quiet Pew
Paul J Griffiths, Commonweal, No Neutral Ground
Wesley Hill, Commonweal, After Boomer Religion
Jake Meador, Commonweal, Resisting a Throwaway Culture
Judy Wu Dominick, The Crux & The Call, Recovering Place: Counteracting the Polarizing Effects of Consumerism & Online Communities
Katelyn Beaty, CT, Girl, Get Some Footnotes: Rachel Hollis, Hustle, and Plagiarism Problems
RS Naifeh (Scott Garbacz), CT, This Fantasy Novelist Showed Me What It Means to Fear God
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, Richard Mouw Wrestles with Evangelicalism, Past and Present
Kelly M Kapic, CT, Has Academic Theology Lost Its Way?
Paul J Pastor, CT, How the Bible Project Is Using Video to Get People into Scripture Again
Amy Simpson, CT, When Moral Boundaries Become Incubators for Sin
Ashley Hales, CT, Waiting Time Isn't Wasted Time
Matthew J Milliner, CT, At Notre Dame, Good Friday Came Early
Nancy Guthrie, CT, Suffering and Submission in Gethsemane
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, CT, Easter Joy Belongs to the Melancholy
Fleming Rutledge, CT, Why ‘Being Christian Without the Church’ Fails the Good Friday Test
Chris Palusky, CT, Christians Can't Back Out of the Foster System Now
Gracy Olmstead, CT, Parents Need Villages, Not Just Public Policies
Mark Galli, CT, The Heart of the Evangelical Crisis
John Thomas, CT, The Call to Self-Discipline in a Media-Saturated AgeKatelyn Beaty, CT, Why Character Is Making a Comeback
Kate Wagner, Curbed, The Case Against Lawns
Nathan J Robinson, Current Affairs, The Radical Egalitarian Politcs of Weird Al's 'UHF'
Ryan Cooper, Current Affairs, Are Voters Just Lemmings?
Jen Gan, The Cut, The Embryo in the Hallway
Jamie Shupe, Daily Signal, I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.
Drew Magary, Deadspin, The Night the Lights Went Out
Joe Rigney, Desiring God, He Sang in the Belly of the Earth
Susannah Black, Fare Forward, New York, New Jerusalem
Anthony Bradley, Fathom, The Great Commission Christianity Keeps Blacks Away From Evangelicalism
Matthew Milliner, First Things, Evangelicals and Zen Masters
Wesley Hill, First Things, Glorious Humility
Leah Libresco Sargent, First Things, Fear and the Benedict Option
Chris Arnade, First Things, Back Row America
Moriah Speciale, First Things, Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace
Brenton Dickieson, Forefront, The Tolkien Film and the Problem of Beauty
Susannah Black, Front Porch Republic, Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Melissa Sexton, Front Porch Republic, Rethinking the Local vs. Global Divide
Elizabeth Stice, Front Porch Republic, Notre Dame and the Need for the Past
John Médaille, Front Porch Republic, “Ora et Anti-Labora”? Kathryn Tanner on Finance Capitalism
Emile Doak, Front Porch Republic, Toward a Somewhere Suburb
Laura Turner, Glamour, The Big Problem With the New Screen-Time Guidelines for Kids
Jennifer Kabat, Granta, Ghostlands
Michael Finkel, GQ, The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief
Clay Skipper, GQ, Why "Doing Nothing" Is the Best Self-Care for the Internet Era
Drew Magary, GQ, Elizabeth Warren Deserves Your Undivided Attention
Richard Lea, The Guardian, Francis Spufford pens unauthorised Narnia novel
Marilynne Robinson, Harper's, Is Poverty Necessary?
BD McClay, Hedgehog Review, The Ills That Flesh Is Heir to
Megan Marz, Hedgehog Review, Seeing Double
Katie Kresser, Image, Christ the Chimera: The Riddle of the Monster Jesus
DL Mayfield, Image, Hummingbird: For Rachel Held Evans
David Lapp, Institute for Family Studies, The Mind in a Lonely Age
James KA Smith, Journal of Church & State, Review: The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, by Alan Jacobs
Veery Huleatt, Kirk Center, Writing from the Edge of the Middle
Ben Reinhard, Kirk Center, A Hope Beyond Our Sight
Mary Lehman Held, Knox News, Fallout from Bean Station meat-processing plant raid devastating to children
Brad East, LARB, Public Theology in Retreat
Jenny Jarvie, LA Times, He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border
Summer Brennan, Longreads, Rewriting a Symphony in Stone
Wesley Hill, Marginalia, Paul and the Cosmic Tyrant
Paul R Hinlicky, Marginalia, Theology after the Death of God
Ginny Hogan, McSweeney's, Don't Get Married Before You Live Together
Stacia L Brown, Medium, Baltimore, Just Below the Surface
Jenny Odell, Medium, How to Do Nothing
Emily Johnson, Medium, Loving a vanishing world
Sean O'Hare, MereO, In Defense of Localism
Jake Meador, MereO, Ben Sasse Heightens the Contradictions
Jake Meador, MereO, Apologies, Power, and Martyrdom in a Decadent Age
Thomas Sieberhagen, MereO, Tolkien and the Golden Age of Fantasy
Susannah Black, MereO, Polis/Counter-polis: On the Civic Benedict Option
Susannah Black, MereO, Dr. Moore and the Politics of Dinner Parties
Susannah Black, MereO, Sealed in Blood: Aristopopulism and the City of Man
Jake Meador, MereO, Whose Reaganism? Which Republicanism?
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Desire, Duty, and Dynamite
Jake Meador, MereO, The End of Christendom: Notes on the Burning of Notre-Dame
Joshua Heavin, MereO, The Church's One Foundation and the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
Susannah Black, MereO, On Rebuilding
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Sex and the Supremacy of Technique
Matthew Loftus, Christian Young, & Jake Meador, MereO, The Radicalization of John Avery Whittaker
Matthew LaPine, MereO, On Being a Church for the Weak
Joshua Heavin, MereO, On Dishonest Stands for the Truth
Jake Meador, MereO, On Pro-Life Incrementalism
Kendall Gunter, Mockingbird, The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Mockingbird, The Top Ten Reasons the Lectionary Sucks and Five Half-Assed Solutions
Randy Boyagoda, Modern Age, Children of Light in an Age of Darkness
Talia Lavin, The Nation, A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind
Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, Cats know their names—why it's harder for them than dogs
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, Where Charity and Love Prevail
Elizabeth Kirk, National Review, On Foster Care, People of Faith Are Called to More Than Political Activism
David French, National Review, Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness
James Poulos, The New Atlantis, Netflix and Nil
Clare Coffey, The New Atlantis, Modernity's Spell
Micah Meadowcroft, The New Atlantis, The Distance Between Us
David Yezzi, The New Criterion, An interview with Christian Wiman
Daniel Kolitz, New Republic, In Search of Generation Z
Win McCormack, New Republic, How Green Was My Virtue
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, New Republic, Rebuilding Notre Dame
Bob Moser, New Republic, Why the Religious Right Is Terrified of Pete Buttigieg
David Sessions, New Republic, The Emptiness of Adam Gopnik's Liberalism
Jacob Silverman, New Republic, Down and Out in the Gig Economy
Steve Inskeep, Vince Pearson, & Barry Gordemer, NPR, What Does 'Born in the USA' Really Mean?
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, The Drummer Hal Blaine Provided the Beat for American Music
Douglas Preston, New Yorker, The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Masha Gessen, New Yorker, Pete Buttigieg Claims His Right to Run for President—and Defends His Right to Exist
Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books, Dialectics of Enlightenment
Eric Levitz, NY Mag: Intelligencer, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now
Michele Anderson, NYT, Go Home to Your (Dying) Hometown
Alex V Cipolle, NYT, Increasing Exposure for Native Artists
David Brooks, NYT, The Case for Reparations
Nellie Bowles, NYT, Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
Jillian Jordan & David Rand, NYT, Are You 'Virtue Signalling'?
John Koblin, NYT, A Fan’s Love, Requited at Last: Conan O’Brien Lands Robert Caro
Ross Douthat, NYT, From the Ashes of Notre-Dame
Ross Douthat, NYT, Are Christians Privileged or Persecuted?
David Bentley Hart, NYT, Can We Please Relax About 'Socialism'?
Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui, & Robert Gebeloff, NYT, The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.
Jonah Engel Bromwich, NYT, A Manifesto for Opting Out of an Internet-Dominated World
Claire Cain Miller, NYT, Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’
Brad Plumer, NYT, Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
Lydia Kiesling, NYT, A Mother's Clock
Jennifer Schuessler, NYT, Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.
Alexandra Alter, NYT, Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti)
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Reinvention of Tradition
Anand Giridharadas, NYT, What to Do When You're a Country in Crisis
Dwight Garner, NYT, In Wendell Berry’s Essays, a Little Earnestness Goes a Long Way
Zachary Scott, NYT Mag, Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free
Matthew Lee Anderson, The Other Journal, Ascension in a Minor Key
Joe Veix, The Outline, You Can't Beat an Unwinnable Game, But You Can Break It
Jonathan Coppage, Philanthropy, Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Rich Hill, Players Tribune, I Want to Talk About My Son Brooks
Tamara Hill Murphy, Plough, The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel
Jeffrey Bilbro, Plough, What I Stand For Is What I Stand On
Agnes Callard, The Point, The Emotion Police
Agnes Callard, The Point, Is Philosophy Fight Club?
Jennifer A Frey, The Point, Paris Without Her Cathedral
Agnes Callard, The Point, Against Advice
Shuja Haider, Popula, Song for My Father
Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, The Tragedy of Baltimore
Jenny Anderson, Quartz, The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, Religion & Politics, Is This the Religious Left’s Kairos Moment?
Brian Phillips, The Ringer, Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art
Lee Billings, Scientific American, Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
Ekemini Uwan, Sistamatic Theology, The Blood of Jesus Is The Bridge; Not My Back
Laura Miller, Slate, Missed Connections
Jane C Hu, Slate, Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye
Bérengère Viennot, Slate, Let's Not Rebuild Notre Dame
William Saletan, Slate, The Root Cause of Global Poverty
Scott Alexander, SlateStarCodex, Sort By Controversial
Sarah Lewin, Space, 'Exhalation' Collection Will Expand Your Mind: A Q&A with Short Story Author Ted Chiang
Rachel Thomas, Theos Think Tank, Rage against the metaphor: Should we stop comparing ourselves to machines?
Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High
Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, The Joy of Giving
Randianne Leyshon, UMBC Magazine, UMBC international students find connection on campus, from day one to degree
Shanon Dingle, USA Today, I was 12 years old and pregnant. Alabama's abortion ban bill would punish girls like me.
Angela Chen, The Verge, Artist Jenny Odell explains why place is the antidote to the attention economy
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Sorry to Bother You is a bananas satirical comedy about code-switching and exploitative capitalism
Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
Karen Swallow Prior, Vox, Abortion will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now
Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, How Christianity can be an "alternative" to consumerism
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Why we wept when Notre Dame burned
Kate Shellnutt, Vox, How progressive Christian blogger Rachel Held Evans changed everything
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is not a typical World War II drama
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is easily one of the wildest films of the year
Jennifer Rubin, WaPo, Pete Buttigieg shows how to campaign on values in the age of Trump
Michael Gerson, WaPo, White supremacy must be undone — institution by institution
Paul Schwartzman, WaPo, Weary of scandal and violence, Baltimore’s residents ask: ‘Why do we stay?’
Theresa Vargas, WaPo, Baltimore deserves better than a one-star mayor
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Talk of a rising religious left is unfounded. It already exists.
EJ Dionne Jr, WaPo, Pete Buttigieg has broken through the noise on community and religion
James McAuley, WaPo, Billionaires raced to pledge money to rebuild Notre Dame. Then came the backlash.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, Is David Brooks a Christian or a Jew? His latest book traces his faith — and his second marriage.
Nancy French, WaPo, What happened after my husband was attacked for critiquing Franklin Graham’s Pete Buttigieg tweets
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Students who charge shooters are heroes. It’s shameful they’re martyrs, too.
Sarah Bessey & Jeff Chu, WaPo, How Rachel Held Evans really should be remembered
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, The #SexStrike wasn’t real. Why was there so much coverage?
Carliss Chatman, WaPo, If a fetus is a person, it should get child support, due process and citizenship
Michael Gerson, WaPo, American politics doesn’t need a Christian supremacy. It needs solidarity.
Deedee Roe, The Witness, Captive Audience: A Black Woman's Reflection on the Sparrow Conference
Matthew Walther, The Week, A new anti-Trump publication is the last thing conservative media needs
Damon Linker, The Week, A manifesto for a new American center
Matthew Walther, The Week, What Notre Dame means to Catholics
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Mike Pence's vulgar mistake about Christianity
Charles Lindholm & John A Hall, ABC Religion & Ethics, Frank Capra meets John Doe: Politics and anti-politics in American film
NT Wright, ABC Relgion & Ethics, Cross and kingdom: Putting the Christian story together again
Susan Neiman, ABC Relgion & Ethics, The rationality of the world: A philosophical reading of the Book of Job
Patrick Gilger, America, Review: Remaining faithful to fragile gifts
Eve Tushnet, America, The value of public penance in the age of clerical abuse, mass incarceration and #MeToo
Adrian Vermeule, American Affairs, Integration from Within
Charles Fain Lehman, The American Conservative, Reversing the Baby Bust
Anthony Paletta, The American Conservative, Why Baltimore Abandoned Johns Hopkins' Humane Vision
Leah Libresco Sargent, The American Interest, Orpheus and the Wall
Leah Libresco Sargent, The American Interest, Your Roots Shall Make Ye Free
Shadi Hamid, American Mind, Crisis of the Creed Divided
Nicholas Gross, Arc Digital, Left-Wing Identity Politics vs. Right-Wing Localism
Michael Wear, The Atlantic, The Abortion Debate Needs Moral Lament
Amanda Ripley, The Atlantic, The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America
Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, The Western Erasure of African Tragedy
Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, The Truth About People Who Have No Personality
John McWhorter, The Atlantic, Freedom Am Won: A Linguistic Mystery
David Sims, The Atlantic, A Movie Like 'The Matrix' Might Never Happen Again
Caitlin Flanagan, The Atlantic, They Had It Coming
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Democrats Have to Decide Whether Faith Is an Asset for 2020
Alana Semuels, The Atlantic, Is This the End of Recycling?
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, ‘A Convenient Life and a Good Life May Not Be the Same Thing’
John McWhorter, The Atlantic, It Wasn’t ‘Verbal Blackface.’ AOC Was Code-Switching.
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, How 'Old Town Road' Transforms the Listener
Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic, Pete Buttigieg Isn’t Just Winning Over People on the Internet
Rainesford Staufer, The Atlantic, Why More Couples Are Getting Married by a Friend
Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, Witnessing the Fall of Notre-Dame
Rosa Inoncencio Smith, The Atlantic, Writing the Pulitzer-Winning 'The Overstory' Changed Richard Powers’s Life
Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, France’s Paradoxes, Embodied in a Cathedral
Alexis C Madrigal, The Atlantic, The Images That Could Help Rebuild Notre-Dame Cathedral
Alexis C Madrigal, The Atlantic, Twitter Is Not America
Emma Green, The Atlantic, How Sri Lanka's Christians Became a Target
Emma Green, The Atlantic, Rachel Held Evans, Hero to Christian Misfits
Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, The Hidden Subsidy of Fossil Fuels
Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?
W Bradford Wilcox & Lyman Stone, The Atlantic, The Happiness Recession
Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, The Agony and Ecstasy of 'Fleabag'
Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, I’ve Never Watched 'Game of Thrones.' But Here’s What I Know
Margaret Tucker, The Atlantic, The Rare Home-Improvement Show That Spotlights Skilled Workers
Erica X Eisen, Altas Obscura, The Very Real Search for the Bible's Mythical Manna
Fern Shen & Mark Reutter, Baltimore Brew, Pugh’s downfall was propelled by her ineffective leadership
Melody Simmons, Baltimore Business Journal, 'Don't take our market from us,' Mondawmin residents say of Shoppers
Ron Cassie, Baltimore Magazine, Hell and High Water
Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, Brick Hill community, hidden in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, lists rare home for sale
Nia Hampton, BMore Art, Reading Claudia Rankine’s Citizen in 2019
Maura Callahan, BmoreArt, Notre Dame on Fire: An Absurdist Tragicomedy
Rosie Gray, Buzzfeed, 'Get Out While You Can'
Laura Turner, Buzzfeed, Why Rachel Held Evans Meant So Much To So Many
Julia Blackburn, Caught by the River, Time Song (excerpt)
Michael Wear, Catapult, My Hope as a Parent Is Something I Share with My Birth Mother
Kaitlyn Scheiss, Christ & Pop Culture, Melodies of Sin and Salvation: Why Modern Worship Music Needs a More Holistic View of Salvation
Abigail Murrish, Christ & Pop Culture, All the Foods I've Failed to Eat
Travis Roberts, Christ & Pop Culture, God of the Belly: Wasting away in the World of First Reformed
Francesca A Murphy, Church Life Journal, Liturgy and Slaughter in the Book of Revelation
Abigail Favale, Church Life Journal, The Eclipse of Sex by the Rise of Gender
Jessica Hooten Wilson, Church Life Journal, Pushing Back Against Marilynne Robinson's Theology
Katharine Dell, Church Times, 'The Bible is not a paper Pope'
Oren Cass, City Journal, How the Other Half Learns
Sarah Holder, CityLab, An App For Mapping Crime, or Urban Paranoia?
Fred Scharmen, CityLab, Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future
Doug Sikkema, Comment, Twelve Rules for the Bookish Life
John Wilson, Comment, In Praise of Miscellany
Mark Mulder, Comment, A Damnable Shame
Shaun Ross, Comment, Lords of Misrule
Jeff Haanen, Comment, Dreading Monday
Sarah Dahl, Comment, Selling Our Birthright for a Quiet Pew
Paul J Griffiths, Commonweal, No Neutral Ground
Wesley Hill, Commonweal, After Boomer Religion
Jake Meador, Commonweal, Resisting a Throwaway Culture
Judy Wu Dominick, The Crux & The Call, Recovering Place: Counteracting the Polarizing Effects of Consumerism & Online Communities
Katelyn Beaty, CT, Girl, Get Some Footnotes: Rachel Hollis, Hustle, and Plagiarism Problems
RS Naifeh (Scott Garbacz), CT, This Fantasy Novelist Showed Me What It Means to Fear God
Tish Harrison Warren, CT, Richard Mouw Wrestles with Evangelicalism, Past and Present
Kelly M Kapic, CT, Has Academic Theology Lost Its Way?
Paul J Pastor, CT, How the Bible Project Is Using Video to Get People into Scripture Again
Amy Simpson, CT, When Moral Boundaries Become Incubators for Sin
Ashley Hales, CT, Waiting Time Isn't Wasted Time
Matthew J Milliner, CT, At Notre Dame, Good Friday Came Early
Nancy Guthrie, CT, Suffering and Submission in Gethsemane
Elisabeth Rain Kincaid, CT, Easter Joy Belongs to the Melancholy
Fleming Rutledge, CT, Why ‘Being Christian Without the Church’ Fails the Good Friday Test
Chris Palusky, CT, Christians Can't Back Out of the Foster System Now
Gracy Olmstead, CT, Parents Need Villages, Not Just Public Policies
Mark Galli, CT, The Heart of the Evangelical Crisis
John Thomas, CT, The Call to Self-Discipline in a Media-Saturated AgeKatelyn Beaty, CT, Why Character Is Making a Comeback
Kate Wagner, Curbed, The Case Against Lawns
Nathan J Robinson, Current Affairs, The Radical Egalitarian Politcs of Weird Al's 'UHF'
Ryan Cooper, Current Affairs, Are Voters Just Lemmings?
Jen Gan, The Cut, The Embryo in the Hallway
Jamie Shupe, Daily Signal, I Was America’s First ‘Nonbinary’ Person. It Was All a Sham.
Drew Magary, Deadspin, The Night the Lights Went Out
Joe Rigney, Desiring God, He Sang in the Belly of the Earth
Susannah Black, Fare Forward, New York, New Jerusalem
Anthony Bradley, Fathom, The Great Commission Christianity Keeps Blacks Away From Evangelicalism
Matthew Milliner, First Things, Evangelicals and Zen Masters
Wesley Hill, First Things, Glorious Humility
Leah Libresco Sargent, First Things, Fear and the Benedict Option
Chris Arnade, First Things, Back Row America
Moriah Speciale, First Things, Marilynne Robinson and the Mystery of Grace
Brenton Dickieson, Forefront, The Tolkien Film and the Problem of Beauty
Susannah Black, Front Porch Republic, Sources of Order: Rooted Cosmopolitanism and the Origins of City Life (Part 1), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Melissa Sexton, Front Porch Republic, Rethinking the Local vs. Global Divide
Elizabeth Stice, Front Porch Republic, Notre Dame and the Need for the Past
John Médaille, Front Porch Republic, “Ora et Anti-Labora”? Kathryn Tanner on Finance Capitalism
Emile Doak, Front Porch Republic, Toward a Somewhere Suburb
Laura Turner, Glamour, The Big Problem With the New Screen-Time Guidelines for Kids
Jennifer Kabat, Granta, Ghostlands
Michael Finkel, GQ, The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art Thief
Clay Skipper, GQ, Why "Doing Nothing" Is the Best Self-Care for the Internet Era
Drew Magary, GQ, Elizabeth Warren Deserves Your Undivided Attention
Richard Lea, The Guardian, Francis Spufford pens unauthorised Narnia novel
Marilynne Robinson, Harper's, Is Poverty Necessary?
BD McClay, Hedgehog Review, The Ills That Flesh Is Heir to
Megan Marz, Hedgehog Review, Seeing Double
Katie Kresser, Image, Christ the Chimera: The Riddle of the Monster Jesus
DL Mayfield, Image, Hummingbird: For Rachel Held Evans
David Lapp, Institute for Family Studies, The Mind in a Lonely Age
James KA Smith, Journal of Church & State, Review: The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis, by Alan Jacobs
Veery Huleatt, Kirk Center, Writing from the Edge of the Middle
Ben Reinhard, Kirk Center, A Hope Beyond Our Sight
Mary Lehman Held, Knox News, Fallout from Bean Station meat-processing plant raid devastating to children
Brad East, LARB, Public Theology in Retreat
Jenny Jarvie, LA Times, He voted for Trump. Now he and his wife raise their son from opposite sides of the border
Summer Brennan, Longreads, Rewriting a Symphony in Stone
Wesley Hill, Marginalia, Paul and the Cosmic Tyrant
Paul R Hinlicky, Marginalia, Theology after the Death of God
Ginny Hogan, McSweeney's, Don't Get Married Before You Live Together
Stacia L Brown, Medium, Baltimore, Just Below the Surface
Jenny Odell, Medium, How to Do Nothing
Emily Johnson, Medium, Loving a vanishing world
Sean O'Hare, MereO, In Defense of Localism
Jake Meador, MereO, Ben Sasse Heightens the Contradictions
Jake Meador, MereO, Apologies, Power, and Martyrdom in a Decadent Age
Thomas Sieberhagen, MereO, Tolkien and the Golden Age of Fantasy
Susannah Black, MereO, Polis/Counter-polis: On the Civic Benedict Option
Susannah Black, MereO, Dr. Moore and the Politics of Dinner Parties
Susannah Black, MereO, Sealed in Blood: Aristopopulism and the City of Man
Jake Meador, MereO, Whose Reaganism? Which Republicanism?
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Desire, Duty, and Dynamite
Jake Meador, MereO, The End of Christendom: Notes on the Burning of Notre-Dame
Joshua Heavin, MereO, The Church's One Foundation and the Fire at Notre Dame Cathedral
Susannah Black, MereO, On Rebuilding
Matthew Loftus, MereO, Sex and the Supremacy of Technique
Matthew Loftus, Christian Young, & Jake Meador, MereO, The Radicalization of John Avery Whittaker
Matthew LaPine, MereO, On Being a Church for the Weak
Joshua Heavin, MereO, On Dishonest Stands for the Truth
Jake Meador, MereO, On Pro-Life Incrementalism
Kendall Gunter, Mockingbird, The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism
Sarah Hinlicky Wilson, Mockingbird, The Top Ten Reasons the Lectionary Sucks and Five Half-Assed Solutions
Randy Boyagoda, Modern Age, Children of Light in an Age of Darkness
Talia Lavin, The Nation, A Reporter’s Long, Strange Trip Into the Darkest Parts of the American Mind
Carrie Arnold, National Geographic, Cats know their names—why it's harder for them than dogs
Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, Where Charity and Love Prevail
Elizabeth Kirk, National Review, On Foster Care, People of Faith Are Called to More Than Political Activism
David French, National Review, Franklin Graham and the High Cost of the Lost Evangelical Witness
James Poulos, The New Atlantis, Netflix and Nil
Clare Coffey, The New Atlantis, Modernity's Spell
Micah Meadowcroft, The New Atlantis, The Distance Between Us
David Yezzi, The New Criterion, An interview with Christian Wiman
Daniel Kolitz, New Republic, In Search of Generation Z
Win McCormack, New Republic, How Green Was My Virtue
Jedediah Britton-Purdy, New Republic, Rebuilding Notre Dame
Bob Moser, New Republic, Why the Religious Right Is Terrified of Pete Buttigieg
David Sessions, New Republic, The Emptiness of Adam Gopnik's Liberalism
Jacob Silverman, New Republic, Down and Out in the Gig Economy
Steve Inskeep, Vince Pearson, & Barry Gordemer, NPR, What Does 'Born in the USA' Really Mean?
Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, The Drummer Hal Blaine Provided the Beat for American Music
Douglas Preston, New Yorker, The Day the Dinosaurs Died
Masha Gessen, New Yorker, Pete Buttigieg Claims His Right to Run for President—and Defends His Right to Exist
Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Review of Books, Dialectics of Enlightenment
Eric Levitz, NY Mag: Intelligencer, Ta-Nehisi Coates Is an Optimist Now
Michele Anderson, NYT, Go Home to Your (Dying) Hometown
Alex V Cipolle, NYT, Increasing Exposure for Native Artists
David Brooks, NYT, The Case for Reparations
Nellie Bowles, NYT, Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good
Jillian Jordan & David Rand, NYT, Are You 'Virtue Signalling'?
John Koblin, NYT, A Fan’s Love, Requited at Last: Conan O’Brien Lands Robert Caro
Ross Douthat, NYT, From the Ashes of Notre-Dame
Ross Douthat, NYT, Are Christians Privileged or Persecuted?
David Bentley Hart, NYT, Can We Please Relax About 'Socialism'?
Emily Badger, Quoctrung Bui, & Robert Gebeloff, NYT, The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.
Jonah Engel Bromwich, NYT, A Manifesto for Opting Out of an Internet-Dominated World
Claire Cain Miller, NYT, Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’
Brad Plumer, NYT, Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
Lydia Kiesling, NYT, A Mother's Clock
Jennifer Schuessler, NYT, Medieval Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another.
Alexandra Alter, NYT, Hannibal Lecter’s Creator Cooks Up Something New (No Fava Beans or Chianti)
Ross Douthat, NYT, The Reinvention of Tradition
Anand Giridharadas, NYT, What to Do When You're a Country in Crisis
Dwight Garner, NYT, In Wendell Berry’s Essays, a Little Earnestness Goes a Long Way
Zachary Scott, NYT Mag, Rick Steves Wants to Set You Free
Matthew Lee Anderson, The Other Journal, Ascension in a Minor Key
Joe Veix, The Outline, You Can't Beat an Unwinnable Game, But You Can Break It
Jonathan Coppage, Philanthropy, Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Rich Hill, Players Tribune, I Want to Talk About My Son Brooks
Tamara Hill Murphy, Plough, The Hole in Wendell Berry's Gospel
Jeffrey Bilbro, Plough, What I Stand For Is What I Stand On
Agnes Callard, The Point, The Emotion Police
Agnes Callard, The Point, Is Philosophy Fight Club?
Jennifer A Frey, The Point, Paris Without Her Cathedral
Agnes Callard, The Point, Against Advice
Shuja Haider, Popula, Song for My Father
Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, The Tragedy of Baltimore
Jenny Anderson, Quartz, The only metric of success that really matters is the one we ignore
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, Religion & Politics, Is This the Religious Left’s Kairos Moment?
Brian Phillips, The Ringer, Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art
Lee Billings, Scientific American, Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
Ekemini Uwan, Sistamatic Theology, The Blood of Jesus Is The Bridge; Not My Back
Laura Miller, Slate, Missed Connections
Jane C Hu, Slate, Texting Means Never Having to Say Goodbye
Bérengère Viennot, Slate, Let's Not Rebuild Notre Dame
William Saletan, Slate, The Root Cause of Global Poverty
Scott Alexander, SlateStarCodex, Sort By Controversial
Sarah Lewin, Space, 'Exhalation' Collection Will Expand Your Mind: A Q&A with Short Story Author Ted Chiang
Rachel Thomas, Theos Think Tank, Rage against the metaphor: Should we stop comparing ourselves to machines?
Skip Hollandsworth, Texas Monthly, Faith, Friendship, and Tragedy at Santa Fe High
Randianne Leyshon Holbrook, UMBC Magazine, The Joy of Giving
Randianne Leyshon, UMBC Magazine, UMBC international students find connection on campus, from day one to degree
Shanon Dingle, USA Today, I was 12 years old and pregnant. Alabama's abortion ban bill would punish girls like me.
Angela Chen, The Verge, Artist Jenny Odell explains why place is the antidote to the attention economy
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Sorry to Bother You is a bananas satirical comedy about code-switching and exploitative capitalism
Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, How to quit Facebook without quitting Facebook
Karen Swallow Prior, Vox, Abortion will be considered unthinkable 50 years from now
Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, How Christianity can be an "alternative" to consumerism
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Why we wept when Notre Dame burned
Kate Shellnutt, Vox, How progressive Christian blogger Rachel Held Evans changed everything
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life is not a typical World War II drama
Alissa Wilkinson, Vox, The Lighthouse, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is easily one of the wildest films of the year
Jennifer Rubin, WaPo, Pete Buttigieg shows how to campaign on values in the age of Trump
Michael Gerson, WaPo, White supremacy must be undone — institution by institution
Paul Schwartzman, WaPo, Weary of scandal and violence, Baltimore’s residents ask: ‘Why do we stay?’
Theresa Vargas, WaPo, Baltimore deserves better than a one-star mayor
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Talk of a rising religious left is unfounded. It already exists.
EJ Dionne Jr, WaPo, Pete Buttigieg has broken through the noise on community and religion
James McAuley, WaPo, Billionaires raced to pledge money to rebuild Notre Dame. Then came the backlash.
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, WaPo, Is David Brooks a Christian or a Jew? His latest book traces his faith — and his second marriage.
Nancy French, WaPo, What happened after my husband was attacked for critiquing Franklin Graham’s Pete Buttigieg tweets
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, Students who charge shooters are heroes. It’s shameful they’re martyrs, too.
Sarah Bessey & Jeff Chu, WaPo, How Rachel Held Evans really should be remembered
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo, The #SexStrike wasn’t real. Why was there so much coverage?
Carliss Chatman, WaPo, If a fetus is a person, it should get child support, due process and citizenship
Michael Gerson, WaPo, American politics doesn’t need a Christian supremacy. It needs solidarity.
Deedee Roe, The Witness, Captive Audience: A Black Woman's Reflection on the Sparrow Conference
Matthew Walther, The Week, A new anti-Trump publication is the last thing conservative media needs
Damon Linker, The Week, A manifesto for a new American center
Matthew Walther, The Week, What Notre Dame means to Catholics
Bonnie Kristian, The Week, Mike Pence's vulgar mistake about Christianity
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