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
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Against Self-Optimization
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.
David Zahl
Essay
Three religious building tops: 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
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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
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The Return of the Family Doctor
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.
Brewer Eberly
Essay
Five women and girls standing outside a rustic building overlooking a grassy field at sunset.
The Faces of the Bhopal Disaster
Forty years after history’s worst industrial accident, survivors still live in its shadow.
Cristiano Denanni
Portfolio

Insights

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A Disabled Savior
The wounds of a resurrected God help us live with ours.
Devan Stahl
Personal History
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In Pursuit of Homefulness
The biblical understanding of health is not biomedical.
John Swinton
Interview
Close-up of an elderly man with long white hair and beard looking through a window holding a pipe.
In Defense of Pint and Pipe
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.
Malcolm Guite
Essay
Dark ocean water scattered with floating ice chunks beneath snow-covered mountains under heavy gray clouds.
In Deep Water off Antarctica
On an icebreaker off the coast of Antarctica, I felt a warming planet’s pulse.
Jessica T Miskelly
Report
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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 charcoal drawings of a child, one holding ears, the other smiling with arms outstretched on paper.
What Families with Autistic Children Know
For parents of neurodiverse children, church and school can be another hurdle.
Sam Tomlin
Essay
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Desire, Use, Repeat
An addict looks for a way out.
James Mumford
Personal History
Man entering a stone building while two men sit on a bench under a tree outside.
Healing at Annoor
A hospital in Mafraq, Jordan, cares for patients with tuberculosis.
Heather M Surls
Dispatch
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The Exploitation of Immigrant Care Workers
Hidden in plain sight, foreign health aides in UK care homes face exploitation.
Hazel Thompson
Report

Web Exclusives

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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 young men outdoors studying a large map spread on the ground, wearing hats and life vests.
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
Man flexing his right bicep muscle in a gym while looking at himself in the mirror.
The Manosphere and Me
A middle-aged deadlifter single-handedly solves the masculinity crisis.
Phil Christman
Worried woman looking at a crying child covering their face with hands and a gloved 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
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 upper portion of the Statue of Liberty against a clear blue sky.
On the Staten Island Ferry
“She’s beautiful,” says the girl, “even though she’s green!”
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
Colorful abstract painting of trees with thick branches near blue water and green bushes.
The Stump
Why had they planted a dead stump?
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
Painting of a dark hill with illuminated buildings and smoke rising into a night sky.
It Could Be Worse
It could be worse, my dear, it could be worse.
A. E. Stallings
Poetry
Book cover of The Serviceberry with birds and berry branches illustrated above the title and author name.
Visions Under the Serviceberry Tree
Robin Wall Kimmerer envisions a new economy in her book The Serviceberry.
William Thomas Okie
Editors’ Pick
Book cover titled Women and the Reformations: A Global History by Merry Wiesner-Hanks with colorful geometric design.
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
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
Abstract painting with blue figure cloaks, two goats, and trees in shades of blue, green, and yellow.
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
Painting of a man in a brown coat standing near a seated figure at a table 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