Featured

Collage of three historical figures in front of a vintage map background.
Three Kants and a Thousand Skulls
In Rwanda, the tales of a young student, an Enlightenment philosopher, and a skull-hunting colonialist intertwine.
Simeon Wiehler
Dispatch
Origami house made from a map with a smoke-like paper strip curling above.
Home Is Not Just a Place
With words we build homes no separation can take away.
Edwidge Danticat
Essay
Stained glass image of a white dove with wings spread against yellow rays of light background.
Integrity and the Future of the Church
Why are so many young people losing faith?
Russell Moore
Essay
Artistic mural depicting a young person’s face with buildings in the background and layered text.
The Quest for Home
Immigrants like me live with a double homelessness. That’s not necessarily bad.
Santiago Ramos
Essay
Collage of a vintage photo of a man and child, a brown leather suitcase, chocolates, and a leafy branch.
In Search of Lost Fig Trees
A mosaic of fathers and daughters, loss and restoration, chance meetings and Damascene chocolates.
Stephanie Saldaña
Essay
Person jumping on white cracked salt flat with mountains and blue sky in the background.
Child of the Stars
A photography project reimagines Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince as an Aymara fairy tale.
River Claure
Coretta Thomson
Portfolio

From the Editor

On Not Knowing Esperanto
Can we move beyond borders without losing our identity?
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Collage of four vintage black-and-white photos showing women and children from different eras.
Refugee Letters
At the height of World War II, three women flee Europe with their community for a pioneer life in South America.
Emmy Barth
Essay
Painting of workers in a forest, cutting trees and carrying wood under green leaves and orange sky.
Life in Zion
A kibbutz veteran calls Zionism back to its founding vision of a shared society.
Yaniv Sagee
Interview
Painting of a cemetery with tombstones under green and orange-leaved trees and a sunlit path.
How to Run a Cemetery
Ann Thomas reflects on her work in a cemetery and meeting people with the same grief and the same faith.
Essay

Web Exclusives

New York City skyline at sunset with One World Trade Center reflecting sunlight over water.
Choosing America
The paradox of growing up everywhere and nowhere.
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Group of people seated at tables eating and socializing in a casual indoor setting with volunteers standing.
Church as Sanctuary and Shelter
What motivates pastors to open their churches and give refuge to undocumented families?
Alan Cross
Sticker on road sign of a woman holding a rifle with UK flag, text says Ulster 1912 crossed out, 2021?, time to decide.
Northern Ireland’s New Troubles
The capacity for peace is still intact on the Emerald Isle.
Group of children and adults indoors, with a smiling girl in a red coat held up in the center.
When Migrants Come Knocking
We can only benefit those who flee to our lands if we can make these lands themselves truly places of justice, places of refuge.
Edmund Waldstein
Four people sitting and standing on a stone wall overlooking a cityscape at sunset.
The Florentine Option
I hungered for belonging but I looked for it in all the wrong places.
Tara Isabella Burton

Arts & Letters

Black and white detailed drawing of an owl swooping with wings spread and claws extended.
Poem: “For the Celts”
To whom it may concern: leave them their rings— / those sentimental claddaghs pledging love, / friendship and loyalty…
Mhairi Owens
Poem
Abstract forest with black tree trunks decorated with colorful swirling patterns and bare branches.
Poem: “The Hunger Winter, 1944–5”
Time is simple for a tree, it hides / its rings inside, a strange geometry / by which a rise inscribes itself as round.
Poem
Artistic view of tree branches with green foliage and black limbs against a white background.
Poem: “Wreathmaking”
The hard, dark berries, blue as black / snakes are blue, befogged with newness, clench / their pips in scaly tufts of green.
Poem
Book cover titled The Cult of Smart by Fredrik deBoer with a red pencil standing among broken yellow pencils.
Editors’ Picks: The Cult of Smart
Anthony M. Barr reviews Fredrik deBoer’s The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.
Anthony M. Barr
Review
Book cover for 'The Utopians' by Anna Neima with vintage photos and geometric shapes on a birch forest background.
Editors’ Picks: The Utopians
Cameron Coombe reviews Anna Neima’s The Utopians: Six Attempts to Build the Perfect Society.
Cameron Coombe
Review
Book cover of The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles with a steam train on a rural track.
Editors’ Picks: The Lincoln Highway
Dori Moody reviews Amor Towles’s The Lincoln Highway: A Novel.
Dori Moody
Review
Colorful wooden boats with painted designs resting on a rocky shore under a partly cloudy sky.
Daring to Follow the Call
Insights on the Sermon on the Mount from a wealth of traditions.
Inklings