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Silhouettes of two boys jumping into water above a pile of plastic bottles under a yellow-orange sky.
The New Malthusians
Population pessimists claim that having children threatens the environment. They are wrong.
Lyman Stone
Essay
Overgrown abandoned church interior with arch windows, exposed brick, and dense green foliage inside.
Tradition and Disruption
Apocalypse, not dogma, is Christianity’s grounds for hope.
David Bentley Hart
Essay
Interior view of a modern circular art gallery with abstract paintings on the walls.
The Apocalyptic Visions of Wassily Kandinsky
As the world careened toward the Great War, a Russian artist pioneered a path out of the material to the spiritual.
Shira Telushkin
Essay
Abstract city skyline at sunset with a figure facing a tall black barrier showing a red virus symbol.
Radical Hope
When worlds die, we need something sturdier than the myth of technological and social progress.
Peter J. Leithart
Essay
Medieval painting of soldiers with helmets and shields standing tightly in a boat.
The Sermon of the Wolf
The Anglo-Saxon world was collapsing amid Viking terror and political chaos. One bishop held a kingdom together.
Eleanor Parker
Essay
Industrial smokestacks emitting thick smoke over a rural village with houses and grazing horses.
The Spiritual Roots of Climate Crisis
The answer to ecological challenges is not more technocracy, but conversion.
Peter Turkson
Interview

Insights

People, including soldier, man with cane, and woman, evacuate across damaged bridge with crowd in background.
War and the Church in Ukraine: Part 1
A pastor describes ministering in wartime Bucha and Kyiv.
Ivan Rusyn
Interview
Cubist-style painting of two abstract faces with large eyes against a reddish-brown background.
The Griefs of Childhood
During the pandemic, I learned to weep with my children.
Anika T Prather
Essay
Two kids inside a vehicle: one boy sitting and one girl holding the steering wheel, with a doll on dashboard.
Everything Will Not Be OK
You can’t protect your children from tragedy.
Brandon McGinley
Essay
Green and yellow fern leaves illuminated by sunlight on a dark forest floor with twigs and plants.
Jesus and the Future of the Earth
To the first Christians, the age to come was anything but otherworldly.
Eberhard Arnold
Reading
Open circular structure with colorful sky and cityscape inside, overlaid with newspaper text.
The Other Side of Revelation
John’s Apocalypse can seem terrifying. But that’s not how the story ends.
Hanna Barbara Gerl Falkovitz
Essay
Person walking a dog in a field at sunset with words saying, 'Any day now' in the sky.
American Apocalypse
A comic artist explores a peculiar national obsession.
Owen Cyclops
Comic
Smiling elderly man in beige suit and patterned tie standing near a lush pomegranate tree outdoors.
Syria’s Seed Planters
The war with ISIS spawned a huge wave of refugees. But not everyone left Syria’s Khabur River valley.
Mindy Belz
Report
Ancient wall painting depicting a central robed figure with arms raised, flanked by seated people and birds.
At the End of the Ages Is a Song
To prepare for Christ to return and bring all things to completion, the early Christians sang.
Joel Clarkson
Essay

Web Exclusives

Night vision image of a military helicopter with soldiers disembarking in a green-lit scene.
War Is Worse Than Almost Anything
Russia invaded Ukraine; it’s still time to get back to the business of abolishing war.
Phil Klay
Samuel Moyn
Swirling storm patterns and cloud formations on Jupiter's surface against black space.
The Last Battle, Revisited
Jupiter and Saturn fight over Narnia.
Michael Ward
Ruined dome structure under dark sky beside large tree and fenced area with stone pillars.
The Problem with Nuclear Deterrence
Catholic teaching on just war forbids not just using nuclear weapons, but also threatening to use them.
Christopher Tollefsen
Man pruning bare grapevine branches in a vineyard with yellow flowers and trees in the background.
A Haven of Olives
In Sicily, a forest blooms in confiscated mafia lands.
Monica Pelliccia
Abstract painting with blues, greens, and oranges forming fragmented humanoid shapes on blue background.
Book Tour: Time for an Intervention
In which we consider recent apocalyptic literature by Sheila Heti, Adam Roberts, David Bentley Hart, and Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò.
Phil Christman
Book Tour

Arts & Letters

Abstract painting of vibrant orange, red, and pink flowers with green leaves on a textured pale background.
Poem: “Stopping By with Flowers”
I wasn’t free, but that part did not matter / so much, I told myself. It was the thought. / She loved my stopping by for those few minutes.
Bruce Bennett
Poem
Close-up of cut green sugarcane stalks arranged on the ground in daylight.
Poem: “Sugarcane Memories”
When I ask him to cut as’ab / he hesitates, then shudders it gone.
Sherry Shenoda
Poem
Pink and white flower petals floating on shallow, pebbled water reflecting light bokeh.
Poem: “Sonnet Addressed to George Oppen, Arlington National Cemetery”
Our wounded earth is flooded with a sea / of petals that flick and flutter as they’re spent.
Eric T. Racher
Poem
Book cover of In the Margins by Elena Ferrante, with a figure on a lined surface against a black background.
Editors’ Picks: In the Margins
A review of Elena Ferrante’s In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Rebecca Walker
Editors’ Pick
Book cover titled The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale with partial nude figures, against a floral sky background.
Editors’ Picks: The Genesis of Gender
A review of Abigail Favale’s The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
Serena Sigillito
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel with a moon over hills and yellow flowers background.
Editors’ Picks: Sea of Tranquility
A review of Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
Joy Marie Clarkson
Editors’ Pick
Illustration of a man with a beard wearing a white robe with a red cross and halos with symbols behind him.
Charles de Foucauld
A young French hedonist follows Jesus into the desert.
Andreas Knapp
Forerunner