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Chronically Healthy, Chronically Ill
Living with a chronic illness, I’ve traveled between the kingdom of health and the kingdom of sickness.
Aberdeen Livingstone
Essay
Against Self-Optimization
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
David Zahl
Essay
Abraham’s Warring Children
After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?
Kelsey Osgood
Essay
What My First Psychiatric Patient Taught Me
Sharon could hardly leave the house. She showed me the wonder and limits of therapy.
Abraham M. Nussbaum
Essay
The Return of the Family Doctor
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
Brewer Eberly
Essay
The Faces of the Bhopal Disaster
Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
Cristiano Denanni
Portfolio

Insights

A Disabled Savior
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
Devan Stahl
Personal History
In Pursuit of Homefulness
The biblical understanding of health is not biomedical.
John Swinton
Interview
In Defense of Pint and Pipe
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
Malcolm Guite
Essay
In Deep Water off Antarctica
On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.
Jessica T Miskelly
Report
Health Is Belonging
Four thinkers stretch our understanding of disease and its remedy.
Edith Stein
Wendell Berry
Teresa of Avila
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Reading
What Families with Autistic Children Know
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
Sam Tomlin
Essay
Desire, Use, Repeat
An addict looks for a way out.
James Mumford
Personal History
Healing at Annoor
A hospital in Mafraq, Jordan, cares for patients with tuberculosis.
Heather M Surls
Dispatch
The Exploitation of Immigrant Care Workers
Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
Hazel Thompson
Report

Web Exclusives

Food Is Not Magic
You may not be able to eat your way to immortality or manliness, but food is something we can make and enjoy together.
Garth Brown
How the Opioid Epidemic Changed My Life
Disturbed by the number of young bodies showing up in his morgue, New Hampshire’s Chief Medical Examiner decided to do something about it.
Tom Andrew
Reuben Zimmerman
The Manosphere and Me
A middle-aged deadlifter single-handedly solves the masculinity crisis.
Phil Christman
The Vaccine Wars
A pediatrician attempts to break the impasse between parents skeptical of vaccination and those seeking to prevent deadly disease outbreaks.
Brian Volck
The Myth of the Nature Cure
In the English Lake District I found companionship in nature, not a cure.
Polly Atkin

Arts & Letters

On the Staten Island Ferry
“She’s beautiful,” says the girl, “even though she’s green!”
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
The Stump
Why had they planted a dead stump?
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
It Could Be Worse
It could be worse, my dear, it could be worse.
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
Visions Under the Serviceberry Tree
Robin Wall Kimmerer envisions a new economy in her book The Serviceberry.
William Thomas Okie
Editors’ Picks
Heroines of the Reformation
In Merry Wiesner-Hanks’s book Women and the Reformations, nuanced narratives show both the flaws of heroines and their tenacity.
Coretta Thomson
Editors’ Picks
The Revenge of the Fox Spirit
Yangsze Choo’s The Fox Wife is a delightful blend of genres: detective story, romance, and fairy tale.
James Smoker
Editors’ Picks
Merelots: Armenia’s Day of the Dead
“What use do the departed have for liturgy?” an Armenian mother reflects on a visit to the grave of her stepson, in this short story.
Narine Abgaryan
Fiction
Tights
If only I had grabbed warm tights for her. During a lull between explosions, she darted out to grab warm clothes, and her daughter chased after her.
Narine Abgaryan
Fiction