April 2021
VOL. 86, NO. 4
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Features
Holy bodies
BY RHONDA MISKA
Catholic sexuality education for high schoolers must go further than the birds and the bees.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Musical milestones
BY TOM McGANN, C.M.F.
At every stage of life, music brings meaning.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Secular and sacred
BY ERIC T. STYLES
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives us a window into the complexity of Black human living.
SALT & LIGHT
Have hope
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
HeLa cells reveal the possibility and brokenness of our world.
MARGIN NOTES
Ban the bomb
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Nukes have been abolished. Someone tell Uncle Sam.
TESTAMENTS
Let there be legends
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Scripture isn’t the whole story, but a collection of episodes from a deep tribal memory.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Why do Catholics sing at Mass?
BY BRADLEY R. VANDEN BRANDEN, O. PRAEM.
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
Together in harmony
an interview with Daniel K. L. Chua
All creation really does sing, says this professor of music.
Essays
New groove
BY KEVIN P. CONSIDINE
A high school teacher finds unexpected grace in a young Chicago rapper.
Sounding Board
Instruments of peace
BY JEROME P. MONACHINO
Organs, guitars, and drums each have a place in the liturgy.
Practicing Catholic
Rise and Shine
BY JOHN T. GROSSO
The early bird gets quiet time with God.
Home Faith
Really, dear?
BY DON CLEMMER
Sometimes calling out your loved ones is the nicest thing to do.
