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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
Dirty Work
An interview with Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs.
Mike Rowe
Interview
Mercenaries out of the Gate
Were the mercenaries just a more honest version of what I was?
Scott Beauchamp
Essay
Now and at the Hour
I never felt very priestly at Calvary.
Joseph Michael Fino, CFR
Essay
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
The Artist of Memory
The story of an Iraqi Christian painter who conserves a world that war destroyed.
Stephanie Saldaña
Essay

From the Editor

Why We Work
As a newcomer to Germany, I wasn’t prepared for the roofers’ guild uniform.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Insights on Vocation
Insights on the nature of vocation, from C. S. Lewis, Thérèse of Lisieux, and Martin Luther.
Inklings
Insights on Work
Insights on work, from Mother Teresa, Eberhard Arnold, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Inklings
An Economy for Anything
Can visionary cryptocurrency wonks break the hold of conventional politics and economics?
Essay
Loneliness at College
My need for community became confused with a quest for validation.
Peter Biles
Essay
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

The Noonday Demon
Acedia gets you to wish your life away.
Jonathan Malesic
Captivated by the First Church
I’m still trying to persuade people that we need to share much more.
Tobias Jones

Arts & Letters

Readers Respond: Issue 22
Letters to the editor: readers respond to our summer issue, Beyond Capitalism.
Forum
Buccaneer School
Back to school with a bunch of pirates.
Maureen Swinger
Community Snapshot
Carl Sandburg’s “Buffalo Dusk”
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
Julian Peters
Comic
To-Do List
One accommodates, / as when the cheap handyman laid / a crooked floor
Poetry
Sometimes I Wince at the Weight of your Hand
Three Poems about Calling
Poetry