April 2023
VOL. 88, NO. 4
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Features
Work of human hands
BY RENÉE RODEN
From candles to vestments and from bread to wine, our liturgical objects can be personal creations.
A place to call home
Inequality in housing access is a crisis in our culture. How should Catholics respond?
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
On fences and faith
BY YUNUEN TRUJILLO
The Catholic faith should never be used as a fence to keep others outside.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
No strings on me
BY JOHN CHRISTMAN
Sometimes it takes a puppet to show us how to be more human.
SALT & LIGHT
The holy sea
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
This Easter season, we are challenged to care for creation as an integral part of proclaiming the gospel.
MARGIN NOTES
Mining Indigenous spirituality
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Preserving the Earth is a worthy goal. So is preserving human dignity.
TESTAMENTS
A missing halo
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Is the church finally prepared to reclaim Mary Magdalene as the powerful woman she is?
GLAD YOU ASKED
Should Catholics celebrate Passover?
BY JOSHUA STEIN
Departments
Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
Signs of the Times (News)
Catholic Tastes (Humor)
Reviews (Music, Film, Books)
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)
Wise Guide
Pilgrim of progress
BY JOHN CHRISTMAN
Rachel Held Evans didn’t just ask the big questions. She lived them.
Essays
Veiled in mystery
BY JESSICA PEGIS
The true story of Mary of Egypt has been hidden beneath layers of patriarchal interpretation.
A neighborhood story
BY EVELYN BENCE
Love binds us together.
Sounding Board
The spirit of the Samaritan
BY ALICE CAMILLE
If we see the world through the Samaritan’s eyes, we’ll find neighbors everywhere.
Expert Witness
Reclaiming ecotheology
An interview with Jawanza Eric Clark
To solve the ecological crisis, the church needs to reckon with its oppression of Indigenous peoples around the world, says this theologian.
Home Faith
Parish priorities
BY MATT KAPPADAKUNNEL
Your parish should be a place where families with small children feel at home.
