Featured

Scraps and Ruins
Hope and action amid anger and oppression in Detroit.
Zito Madu
Essay
The Home Is the School
What my children need is not to learn the Mayan number system, but to learn how to take out the trash.
Mary Townsend
Essay
Schooling Hope
Through the threat of the virus, ironically, we’ve discovered we are inextricably interrelated.
Stanley Hauerwas
Interview
This Too Shall Pass?
Community matters the most in times of crisis.
Edwidge Danticat
Essay
A Unique Time of God?
The revolutionary message of the Gospel, come what may.
William H. Willimon
Features
Grieving Alone, Together
The best thing we can do for the bereaved is be present and bear witness to each other’s grief. How can we do that now?
Marilyn R. Gardner
Essay
Clean House
Life and death, fame and faith in prison.
John J. Lennon
Features

From the Editor

A Time for Regeneration
We must look clearly at what the coronavirus crisis reveals – and prepare for a renewal to come.
Peter Mommsen
From the Editor

Insights

Care, Pray, Trust, Obey
While there’s no guarantee of what will happen, God will be faithful to us in whatever the future brings.
Viewpoints
Apart Together
If physical contact keeps us human, what does the future hold?
Charles E Moore
Viewpoints
Floodplain
What could be lacking in the sufferings of Christ? Only that which his hands and feet – us – have not yet experienced.
Matthew Loftus
Dispatch
Grateful for Each Breath
An Italian doctor shares his experience treating COVID patients.
Dispatch
Breaking the Fast in a Broken World
On the eve of Eid, Djibouti starts to emerge from lockdown.
Rachel Pieh Jones
Dispatch
Fellow Feeling in a Crisis
Where is the Christian readiness to give people in stressful situations the benefit of the doubt?
Dispatch
The Hard Work of Conversion
Can the lessons learned in this pandemic help us tackle climate change?
Bill McKibben
Essay
When the Church Doors Close
After a time of quiet we meet others in a different and fresh way.
Essay
The Art of Dying
A New York City doctor on the questions colleagues and patients need to ask.
Lydia Dugdale
Interview

Web Exclusives

When the Sickness Is Over
How do you explain the pandemic to a three-year-old?
Essay
The Book of Repose
Horizontal and Vertical Time in Laurus and in Lockdown.
Nathan Beacom
Essay
Rejoicing in Apocalypse
Plagues as seen through Christian art.
Elizabeth Lev
Essay
Learning to Stay
Can a frequently transplanted tree – or family – hope to flourish?
Jonathan Kirk Brooks
Essay
Mother Peregrine
Keeping watch with fellow creatures.
Laura M. Fabrycky
Essay

Arts & Letters

A Pain in the Navel
A pandemic exposes the gap between those who stay safe and those who never could.
Harold Muñoz
Dispatch
Of Ducklings and Baby Fish
Signs of new life amid fear and disaster.
Uk-Bae Lee
Dispatch
Tinned Fruit in Times of Famine
Social media is second best – until it’s the only choice.
Essay
The Rawness of the World
Two poems about seeing and speaking.
Poetry
By the Lights of Brush and Night
Two poems about illumination.
Poetry
Patience in Lockdown
A card game delivers messages from on high.
Fiction
Philip Larkin’s “The Trees”
“The trees are coming into leaf / like something almost being said…”
Julian Peters
Comic
Remember When…?
Recording true impressions for the day when we will reminisce and shake our heads in disbelief.
Essay
Service from Suffering
Lessons in facing disaster from a lifetime of grief, prayer, hope, and love.
Fida Meier
Essay