September 2020
VOL. 85, NO. 9
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Features
This is my church
Many rural parishes face similar challenges, but they find different ways to stay vibrant.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Turn the page
BY EMILY SANNA
What books have built your literary and theological worldview?
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Bludgeons or balms
BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Media can act to challenge stereotypes or reinforce the status quo.
SALT & LIGHT
Art work
BY FATHER BRYAN MASSINGALE
Predominantly white sacred images obscure and denigrate the sacredness of nonwhite lives and bodies.
MARGIN NOTES
A small world after all
BY KEVIN CLARKE
If we don’t beat COVID-19 everywhere, we can’t beat it anywhere.
TESTAMENTS
Sacred stories
BY ALICE CAMILLE
The stories important to us direct us to act, choose, and move through the seasons.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Why do bishops wear a hat and carry a stick?
BY JOHN GROSSO
Departments
Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Reviews
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)
Expert Witness
The storyteller
an interview with Louise Erdrich
Mining her family’s myths and Native American heritage, novelist Louise Erdrich gives voice to stories from the margins.
Essays
God matters
BY NICK RIPATRAZONE
Today’s Catholic writers reveal that God is in all things, from the sacred to the mundane.
A baptized mind
BY DAVID RUSSELL MOSLEY
In his children’s fiction, C.S. Lewis communicates Christian truth through story.
Sounding Board
Fast for justice
BY STEPHANIE CLARY
Can one person’s dietary decisions affect the common good?
In Person
A healer’s prayer
BY ROSIE MCCARTY
How one doctor’s faith keeps her going, even in the midst of pandemic.
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