Arts & Culture

What we’re reading this month: June 2023

The books U.S. Catholic writers have enjoyed this month, including “All Oppression Shall Cease” and “Non-Toxic Masculinity.”

All Oppression Shall Cease By Christopher Kellerman, S.J. (Orbis, 2022) At the beginning of social healing is truth-telling. This involves the true stories of victims of oppression, but also of the actions of wrongdoers. The work...

June 2023

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CURRENT ISSUE

In God’s image

Understanding God beyond the gender binary is essential to building a better church.
BY ELLYN SANNA

‘Jesus served’

The work of medical nonprofit Los Quijotes models Jesus’ ministry.
BY JOSEPH SORRENTINO

God is change

For this scripture scholar, science gives new language for talking about vocation and community.
AN INTERVIEW WITH LAURIE BRINK, O.P.

Where are your voices?

Sixty years after Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham City Jail,” white Christians still function as defenders of an unjust status quo.
BY FATHER BRYAN MASSINGALE

A poignant lesson

What might peace in our time look like?
BY KEVIN CLARKE

God often chooses those who are most despised and marginalized to bear the gospel’s prophetic message. 

LaRyssa Herrington