Featured

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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
Medieval illustration of two intertwined serpent-like creatures with red heads facing each other.
Against Self-Optimization
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
David Zahl
Essay
Three religious dome tops with symbols: Star of David, Christian cross, and Islamic crescent against blue sky.
Abraham’s Warring Children
After October 7, can a Muslim-Christian-Jewish center in Abu Dhabi make any difference?
Kelsey Osgood
Essay
Abstract painting with dark figure silhouette in front of yellow-orange striped background and blue borders.
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
Black and white illustration of an elderly man holding hands with a young boy in a room.
The Return of the Family Doctor
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
Brewer Eberly
Essay
Five women and girls in traditional clothing standing on a rooftop balcony in a rural area.
The Faces of the Bhopal Disaster
Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
Cristiano Denanni
Portfolio

Insights

Abstract geometric artwork with symmetrical shapes and hand-like figures in blue, gray, and red tones.
A Disabled Savior
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
Devan Stahl
Personal History
Painting of an elderly man with white beard and blue hat raising arms standing among red flowers.
In Pursuit of Homefulness
The biblical understanding of health is not biomedical.
John Swinton
Interview
Older man with a long white beard smoking a pipe, seen through a window with reflections.
In Defense of Pint and Pipe
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
Malcolm Guite
Essay
Cold ocean scattered with ice chunks beneath dark, heavy clouds with snowy mountains in the background.
In Deep Water off Antarctica
On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.
Jessica T Miskelly
Report
Intricate brown nature illustration with animals, plants, a flying bird, and a tree on a light background.
Health Is Belonging
Four thinkers stretch our understanding of disease and its remedy.
Edith Stein
Wendell Berry
Teresa of Avila
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt
Reading
Two sketchbook pages with charcoal drawings of a person with curly hair in different poses indoors.
What Families with Autistic Children Know
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
Sam Tomlin
Essay
Smiley face drawn on a fogged glass surface with water droplets dripping down.
Desire, Use, Repeat
An addict looks for a way out.
James Mumford
Personal History
A man approaches a beige stone building entrance while two men sit on a nearby stone bench under trees.
Healing at Annoor
A hospital in Mafraq, Jordan, cares for patients with tuberculosis.
Heather M Surls
Dispatch
Person wearing a black mask with hair tied back and warm light shining across the face.
The Exploitation of Immigrant Care Workers
Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
Hazel Thompson
Report

Web Exclusives

Bearded man wearing round glasses and straw hat outdoors with blurred landscape background.
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
Group of hikers gathered on sand studying a map while one points with a knife, wearing hats and backpacks.
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
Muscular man flexing his arm and looking at himself in a gym mirror wearing a gray tank top.
The Manosphere and Me
A middle-aged deadlifter single-handedly solves the masculinity crisis.
Phil Christman
Worried woman looking sideways and child covering eyes next to a hand holding a syringe.
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
Person wearing beige boots and white pants walking on a forest dirt trail covered with leaves.
The Myth of the Nature Cure
In the English Lake District I found companionship in nature, not a cure.
Polly Atkin

Arts & Letters

Close-up of the Statue of Liberty's face and raised arm against a clear blue sky.
On the Staten Island Ferry
“She’s beautiful,” says the girl, “even though she’s green!”
A. E. Stallings
Poem
Abstract landscape painting with colorful trees, blue water, and a yellow and red foreground.
The Stump
Why had they planted a dead stump?
A. E. Stallings
Poem
Painting of a dark night scene showing scattered lit buildings with smoke rising in the background.
It Could Be Worse
It could be worse, my dear, it could be worse.
A. E. Stallings
Poem
Book cover for The Serviceberry with birds and berries illustration and author Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Visions Under the Serviceberry Tree
Robin Wall Kimmerer envisions a new economy in her book The Serviceberry.
William Thomas Okie
Editors’ Pick
Book cover with a stained glass design titled Women and the Reformations by Merry Wiesner-Hanks.
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’ Pick
Book cover of 'The Fox Wife' by Yangsze Choo shows a person in red walking through a snowy landscape.
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’ Pick
Surreal painting with blue figures, two small goats, and abstract trees in muted colors.
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
Impressionist painting of a person in a long coat near a table and seated figure outside a building.
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