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Woman in patterned dress and sunglasses crouching near basket with two children and standing woman in rural 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
Worker wearing protective gear using a grinding tool that creates bright sparks in a workshop.
Dirty Work
An interview with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs.
Mike Rowe
Interview
Person in camo vest with Blackwater and American flag patches, holding a weapon.
Mercenaries out of the Gate
Were the mercenaries just a more honest version of what I was?
Scott Beauchamp
Essay
Abstract artwork of a white, lace-like silhouette of a person on a black and beige split background.
Now and at the Hour
I never felt very priestly at Calvary.
Joseph Michael Fino, CFR
Essay
Adobe-style adobe stairs and wall with a wooden gate featuring a cross design in shadowed light.
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 traditional hat and red scarf with gold ornaments.
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

Pointillist painting of a woman carrying a basket in a forested landscape at sunset.
Insights on Vocation
Insights on the nature of vocation, from C. S. Lewis, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Martin Luther.
Inklings
Wooden hand tools including chisels and hammers hanging on a rustic wall in a workshop.
Insights on Work
Insights on work, from Mother Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Inklings
Three ancient coins, two gold and one silver, on a black background with blue digital numbers.
An Economy for Anything
Can visionary cryptocurrency wonks break the hold of conventional politics and economics?
Essay
Surreal painting of two humanoid figures with box heads walking near a large wall at sunset.
Loneliness at College
My need for community became confused with a quest for validation.
Peter Biles
Essay
Person welding metal project with sparks flying in a workshop environment.
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

Cubist-style painting showing layered paper sheets with partial, bold text like 'JUNE' and 'LA'.
The Noonday Demon
Acedia gets you to wish your life away.
Jonathan Malesic
Two wooden fishing boats with fishermen on calm water under a cloudy sunset sky.
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 and black fountain pen nib resting on handwritten paper.
Readers Respond: Issue 22
Letters to the editor: readers respond to our summer issue, Beyond Capitalism.
Forum
Four kids in pirate hats holding swords and large decorated cones outdoors on green grass.
Buccaneer School
Back to school with a bunch of pirates.
Maureen Swinger
Community Snapshot
Watercolor painting of two bison butting heads in a parking lot filled with cars and buildings in the background.
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 seed fluff with thin brown tendrils against a soft gray background.
To-Do List
One accommodates, / as when the cheap handyman laid / a crooked floor
Poetry
Painting of a person petting a large dog with a blue and gray color palette.
Sometimes I Wince at the Weight of your Hand
Three Poems about Calling
Poetry