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Selling Friends
In multilevel marketing, friendship is not the means to the sell – it is the thing being sold.
Clare Coffey
Essay
Intricate fish illustration formed from detailed components of U.S. dollar bills in green and white tones.
Enchanted Capitalism
Modern capitalism claims to be secular. It’s anything but.
Eugene McCarraher
Interview
St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City illuminated at night with people in the foreground.
Princess of the Vatican
What happens when a Roman palazzo becomes a homeless shelter?
Sharon Rose Christner
Essay
Colored pencil drawing of various tropical plants and trees on beige paper with handwritten notes.
Leper Colony Sketches
A woman finds pain and friendship in the enforced community of outcasts at a Paraguayan leper colony.
Maria Weiss
Maureen Burn
Personal History
Painting of a serene woman with closed eyes holding a small ornate container in her hands.
In Praise of Costly Magnificence
Mary of Bethany shows the beauty of extravagance.
Alastair Roberts
Essay
Elderly man with gray hair sitting at table, looking toward framed photos and posters on a turquoise wall.
The Last of the Cuban Revolutionaries
What’s left of Fidel Castro’s revolution seventy years after it began?
Portfolio

Insights

Abstract artwork with dark purple, yellow, and blue tones featuring a figure kneeling beside a horned animal.
The Religion of Mammon
Money and God are enemies. We must choose one or the other.
Eberhard Arnold
Essay
Two men preparing food in a kitchen; one scoops sauce, another cuts a large rectangular pizza.
Pay As You Can
At a café where we grow the food and don’t name a price, we’re still learning new mindsets.
Robert Lockridge
Dispatch
Large crowd gathered outdoors, some sitting and others standing among trees, overlooking distant landscape.
Ownership and Communion
A sixteenth-century Anabaptist spells out the economics of the Apostles’ Creed.
Peter Riedemann
Reading
Landscape painting with a man plowing field with horse amid trees under cloudy sky.
Saving the Commons
As the Industrial Revolution took off in Britain, William Cobbett rose in defense of the cottage economy.
Jack Bell
Essay
Irregular rainbow-colored oil slick on wet asphalt near a bright yellow parking line.
On Owning Twenty-Two Cars
What is it like to live in a community where you possess nothing but share everything?
Maureen Swinger
Community Snapshot
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Where Your Treasure Is
Five readings from Christian thinkers challenge our assumptions about money.
Nikolai Berdyaev
Basil of Caesarea
Maria Skobtsova
CS Lewis
Dorothy Day
Reading

Web Exclusives

Black and white woodcut-style illustration of a figure in a cloak reading a book while walking.
The Effective Samaritan: A Parable
A Tradcath, an exvangelical influencer, a mainliner, and a conservative megachurch pastor star in this retelling of Luke 10:30–37.
Phil Christman
Woman gently holds a child near a window, showing a caring and protective gesture.
The Justice Mothers Are Due
If soldiers deserve a pension for serving their country, mothers also deserve material support. History suggests this is a very American idea.
Erika Bachiochi
Friday Long Read
The Library at Home
My parents insisted on reserving an entire room in our small house for books. Reading expanded my world and shaped my future.
Zito Madu
Friday Long Read
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Should Churches Be Beautiful?
A Christian raised in folding-chair storefront churches is uncomfortable in Rome’s glittering basilicas – until she starts to see them as God might.
Sharon Rose Christner
Friday Long Read

Arts & Letters

Night sky with a bright full moon partially covered by scattered glowing clouds and dark foliage on the right.
Poem: “Clair de lune”
Clair de lune from Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque in memory of my mother.
Jean L. Kreiling
Poetry
Colorful stained glass artwork depicting abstract flowers and leaves in yellow, green, and purple hues.
Poem: “Advent”
It seems as though it never has to die / as long as it continues on its way.
Matthew King
Poetry
Vintage scientific illustration showing planetary orbits, sundials, and mechanical gears diagrams.
Poem: “Argument of Periapsis”
Is there sound in space? We try / saying what we really mean to say.
Midge Goldberg
Poetry
Editors’ Picks: Thin Places
The Ireland of Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s Thin Places offers more than a token sense of generic mysticism.
Allison Backous Troy
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet with an orange bird perched on branches and award finalist text.
Editors’ Picks: Dinosaurs
Lydia Millet’s novel Dinosaurs points to community but remains clear-eyed about the failures of human beings to live well together.
James Smoker
Editors’ Pick
Book cover of Natality by Jennifer Banks with a white sphere and shadowed leaves on gray background.
Editors’ Picks: Natality
Jennifer Banks’s spectacular book Natality considers Hannah Arendt's idea that humans “are not born in order to die but in order to begin.”
Caitrin Keiper
Editors’ Pick
Book cover for A History of the Island by Eugene Vodolazkin on a vintage map background with dragon and tram sketches.
History Arrives on the Island
Read the first chapter of Eugene Vodolazkin’s new novel, A History of the Island, the chronicle of an island from medieval to modern times.
Eugene Vodolazkin
Lisa C. Hayden
Fiction