In March 2021 FutureChurch hosted a talk on women in Catholic media, hosted by Heidi Schlumpf, executive editor of the National Catholic Reporter. Schlumpf...
Author - Rebecca Bratten Weiss
Because my father died early in the pandemic, while much of the world was in lockdown, his funeral was a virtual event. The only in-person attendees were...
When a young woman in an Alabama parish heard that the Jesuits of St. Louis were organizing a solidarity stand vigil, she was inspired to arrange something...
I first encountered the concept of the Catholic imagination at university. Writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, and Flannery O’Connor captured my...
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland By Marie Mutsuki Mockett (Graywolf Press, 2020) “All discussions of food and agriculture begin...
What does it mean to be in exile? The Christian tradition treats the idea of exile as a spiritual phenomenon: being sundered from our pristine beginnings, cast...
In recent weeks, many have felt the faith on which we built our lives shifting beneath us, no longer sturdy rock but treacherous sand. And the conversations...
I am in my garden, squatting in the dirt like a medieval peasant, as around me rise the complex smells of lichen and mineral, exhalations of earthworm and...
I went to see The Last Jedi with some immature trepidation, since I’m more emotionally invested in this story than I should be, not being a teenager doing...
I distinctly remember the conversation. I was a college freshman, talking to an older student about our respective faith heritages. This school, I should...
