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The New Malthusians
Population pessimists claim that having children threatens the environment. They are wrong.
Lyman Stone
Essay
Tradition and Disruption
Apocalypse, not dogma, is Christianity’s grounds for hope.
David Bentley Hart
Essay
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
Radical Hope
When worlds die, we need something sturdier than the myth of technological and social progress.
Peter J. Leithart
Essay
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
The Spiritual Roots of Climate Crisis
The answer to ecological challenges is not more technocracy, but conversion.
Peter Turkson
Interview

Insights

War and the Church in Ukraine: Part 1
A pastor describes ministering in wartime Bucha and Kyiv.
Ivan Rusyn
Interview
The Griefs of Childhood
During the pandemic, I learned to weep with my children.
Anika T Prather
Essay
Everything Will Not Be OK
You can’t protect your children from tragedy.
Brandon McGinley
Essay
Jesus and the Future of the Earth
To the first Christians, the age to come was anything but otherworldly.
Eberhard Arnold
Reading
The Other Side of Revelation
John’s Apocalypse can seem terrifying. But that’s not how the story ends.
Hanna Barbara Gerl Falkovitz
Essay
American Apocalypse
A comic artist explores a peculiar national obsession.
Owen Cyclops
Comic
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
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

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
The Last Battle, Revisited
Jupiter and Saturn fight over Narnia.
Michael Ward
The Problem with Nuclear Deterrence
Catholic teaching on just war forbids not just using nuclear weapons, but also threatening to use them.
Christopher Tollefsen
A Haven of Olives
In Sicily, a forest blooms in confiscated mafia lands.
Monica Pelliccia
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

Arts & Letters

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
Poetry
Poem: “Sugarcane Memories”
When I ask him to cut as’ab / he hesitates, then shudders it gone.
Sherry Shenoda
Poetry
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
Poetry
Editors’ Picks: In the Margins
A review of Elena Ferrante’s In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
Rebecca Walker
Editors’ Picks
Editors’ Picks: The Genesis of Gender
A review of Abigail Favale’s The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory
Serena Sigillito
Editors’ Picks
Editors’ Picks: Sea of Tranquility
A review of Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranquility: A Novel
Joy Marie Clarkson
Editors’ Picks
Charles de Foucauld
A young French hedonist follows Jesus into the desert.
Andreas Knapp
Forerunners