Featured

A woman in sunglasses crouches near two children and a standing woman in a sandy rural setting with huts.
A Love Stronger than Fear
Amid disease, war, and religious fundamentalism in the Horn of Africa, what difference could one woman make?
Rachel Pieh Jones
Essay
Welder in protective gear using a torch, creating bright sparks in a workshop.
Dirty Work
An interview with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs.
Mike Rowe
Interview
Close-up of a person in camouflage gear with a Blackwater patch and a U.S. flag patch on the chest.
Mercenaries out of the Gate
Were the mercenaries just a more honest version of what I was?
Scott Beauchamp
Essay
Artistic lace silhouette of a person with flowing hair on a black and beige split background.
Now and at the Hour
I never felt very priestly at Calvary.
Joseph Michael Fino, CFR
Essay
Wooden gate with a cross in front of beige adobe-style stepped walls bathed in sunlight and shadow.
Monks and Martyrs
We always have something to offer, even if it is the widow’s two mites or the young boy’s five loaves and two fish.
Archbishop Angaelos
Interview
Portrait of a woman wearing a colorful striped hat, red scarf, and ornate gold jewelry.
The Artist of Memory
The story of an Iraqi Christian painter who conserves a world that war destroyed.
Stephanie Saldaña
Essay

From the Editor

Cluster of old stone buildings with orange tiled roofs in a Mediterranean or European town.
Why We Work
As a newcomer to Germany, I wasn’t prepared for the roofers’ guild uniform.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

A pointillist painting of a woman carrying a basket on her head in a landscape with trees and bushes.
Insights on Vocation
Insights on the nature of vocation, from C. S. Lewis, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Martin Luther.
Inklings
Vintage woodworking tools with wooden handles hanging on a weathered wooden wall with coiled rope.
Insights on Work
Insights on work, from Mother Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Inklings
Two gold ancient coins and one silver coin over a dark background with glowing blue numbers.
An Economy for Anything
Can visionary cryptocurrency wonks break the hold of conventional politics and economics?
Essay
Surreal scene with two walking figures having box-shaped heads near a large wall under a yellow sky.
Loneliness at College
My need for community became confused with a quest for validation.
Peter Biles
Essay
Welder wearing protective gloves and mask, welding metal with sparks flying.
Oh, to Weld!
As a boy, I admired my Uncle Danni’s ability to weld. Something about permanently bonding two pieces of metal together intrigued me:
Reading

Web Exclusives

Abstract painting of overlapping, folded paper sheets with partial French text including 'LA' and 'JNE'.
The Noonday Demon
Acedia gets you to wish your life away.
Jonathan Malesic
A group of people on wooden boats at dusk with a cloudy sky and calm sea.
Captivated by the First Church
I’m still trying to persuade people that we need to share much more.
Tobias Jones

Arts & Letters

Close-up of a gold-tipped fountain pen resting on handwritten text on paper.
Readers Respond: Issue 22
Letters to the editor: readers respond to our summer issue, Beyond Capitalism.
Forum
Four young boys wearing pirate hats, holding decorated cones and plastic swords outdoors on grass.
Buccaneer School
Back to school with a bunch of pirates.
Maureen Swinger
Community Snapshot
Watercolor of two bison butting heads in a parking lot filled with cars under a cloudy sky.
Carl Sandburg’s “Buffalo Dusk”
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Julian Peters
Comic
Close-up of delicate white fuzzy seed heads with thin curling stems against a blurred gray background.
To-Do List
One accommodates, / as when the cheap handyman laid / a crooked floor
Poetry
Painting of a person petting a standing dog with a blue and muted color palette.
Sometimes I Wince at the Weight of your Hand
Three Poems about Calling
Poetry