February 2021
VOL. 86, NO. 2
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Features
‘Hate has no home here’
BY KATIE BAHR
Catholic colleges and universities around the country are taking anti-oppression measures to heart.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Mend the cracks
BY JESSIE BAZAN
There is beauty in brokenness.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Culture in crisis
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Hillbilly Elegy misunderstands the realities of poverty in Appalachia.
SALT & LIGHT
Paid attention
BY DAVID CLOUTIER
Are you looking at the world through Jesus’ eyes?
MARGIN NOTES
Dollars and sense
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Racism costs all of us.
TESTAMENTS
The upward spiral
BY ALICE CAMILLE
To find hope in the darkest of times, imitate Job.
GLAD YOU ASKED
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
Open minds, open hearts
an interview with Bishop Edward K. Braxton
The church needs to talk about race without judgment, says this bishop emeritus.
Essays
Hearts lifted up
BY KEVIN P. CONSIDINE
In difficult times, spontaneous prayer delivers salvation beyond suffering.
Spring of progress
BY PATRICK SAINT-JEAN, S.J.
Like St. Ignatius’ spiritual exercises, anti-racism work is a lifelong commitment.
Sounding Board
A critical lens
BY KATHLEEN BONNETTE
Schools must teach the unvarnished truth about even the most cherished American heroes.
Wise Guides
Unintended mystic
BY TERESA CODA
Simone Weil was an outsider whose spiritual beliefs embraced nuance and complexity.
Home Faith
Surrender to the mess
BY DON CLEMMER
A father reflects on parenthood’s lessons of letting go and trusting God.
