Featured

Three black-and-white photos of people: refugees, protesters, and a mother with child in ruins, connected by a yellow line.
Solidarity in Forgiveness
Everyone is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor
Fantasy street scene with people, colorful dinosaurs, and flowers in a bustling town setting.
Dinotopian Visions
Endless battles are too predictable and boring. How much fresher and more difficult to envision is a world that has figured out how to live peacefully!
Interview
Young man smiling indoors wearing a blue shirt and gray hoodie against a beige wall.
The Solidarity of Grief
How can mourning possibly be a blessing?
Essay
White sculpted hands positioned close together against a plain gray background.
The Church Is Other People
You learn quickly when you enter the ministry that despite the high talk of heavenly calling, we are primarily in the people business.
Essay
Hands holding a blue and yellow bird against a dark background, person wearing a watch.
Solidarity Means Giving Yourself
Can a cloistered nun help a hurting world?
Sister Dominic Mary Heath, OP
Essay

From the Editor

Black and white photo of a crowd including children wearing face masks and a man holding a child.
Solidarity in Forgiveness
Everyone is really responsible to all men for all men and for everything.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Black Lives Matter and the Church
The new interracial solidarity of protesters is an important first step. But there are deeper powers to engage.
Eugene Rivers
Jacqueline C Rivers
Interview
Outdoor market with vendors selling carrots, vegetables, flowers, and people walking between stalls with red canopies.
Acts 2 in Bolivia
What does a community inspired by the first church in Jerusalem look like in an indigenous Andean context?
Braulio Condori
The Doers
Large group of men in blue uniforms seated in rows outdoors in a fenced area with buildings in the background.
We Must Not Stand By
The persecution of China’s Uighur Muslims is a moral outrage, a political scandal, and a desecration of faith itself.
Jonathan Sacks
Report
Four people crossing a wet street in rain, holding colorful umbrellas and smiling in urban setting.
Another Life Is Possible
Four stories from 100 years of life together.
Clare Stober
Personal History

Web Exclusives

Man in clerical clothes stands among broken altar pieces and a headless statue inside a damaged church.
Iraqi Christians, Bearing Witness
Showing love and forgiveness amid death and revenge.
Close-up of a wheelchair wheel showing metal spokes and part of the seat in blue tones.
The Effort in the Image
On Seeing Cézanne’s The Large Bathers from a Rented Wheelchair
Victoria Reynolds Farmer
Musician playing electric guitar on stage under a bright spotlight with hair falling forward.
In Search of Lost Tribes
The raptures of belonging, and what is left behind.
Ian Marcus Corbin
Round wall clock on pink wall with text reading 'Fresh brewed coffee served here have a cup!'
At Your Service
The performance of working for tips.
Decorative stone arches and ornate Corinthian marble columns with detailed stonework patterns.
Restore the Guilds
What today’s labor unions, democratic socialists, and mutual aid societies might learn from the colorful history of Christian socialism in Britain.
Gary Dorrien
Kinship in Lockdown America
Learning with the incarcerated through relationships.
Chris Hoke

Arts & Letters

Dirt road beside a grassy field under a cloudy sky with distant trees and a water tower.
Two Sonnets
Charged, electric, the world’s more real than human minds imagine.
Sally Thomas
Poetry
Traditional Chinese painting of pink peonies with green leaves on beige background.
The Prayers of the Chinese Nature Painters
An artist can show that mountains have something in common with honor … that a breeze at night is not unlike a heartbreak.
Nathan Beacom
Essay
Abstract colorful painting with diagonal light beams and layered textured brushstrokes.
Chaim Potok’s Wandering Jews
Holding to faith in a critical age.
Wesley Hill
Essay
Book cover of The Gospel in Dickens with a portrait and a sepia photo of Charles Dickens reading a book.
How to Read Dickens
Good literature is fresh water for the soul.
Karen Swallow Prior
Reading
Painting of a tall stack of balanced rocks against a muted, cloudy background.
Two Poems
Our minds give off the light that reveals the connections linking us one to the other.
Poetry
Cover of Plough Quarterly magazine with the word SOLIDARITY and abstract green-blue-yellow shapes.
Covering the Cover: Solidarity
The different elements are bound together and strengthened by something beyond themselves.
Rosalind Stevenson
Covering the Cover