March 2021
VOL. 86, NO. 3
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Features
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
My body, for you
BY STEPHANIE CLARY
Nourishment and connection are the core of our Catholic faith.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Life everlasting
BY PAMELA HILL NETTLETON
Soul shows us not only what we might be missing about life, but also what we are missing right now.
SALT & LIGHT
New resolve
BY FATHER BRYAN MASSINGALE
How would our society look if national decisions were informed by Catholic social teaching?
MARGIN NOTES
Franciscan macroeconomics
BY KEVIN CLARKE
An opportunity to promote the trickle-up effect.
TESTAMENTS
On parakeets’ wings
BY ALICE CAMILLE
At a time of loss and grief, find symbols of courage in the beauty around us.
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
Not so fast
an interview with Jessica Coblentz
Diet culture complicates the spiritual practice of fasting, says this professor.
Essays
Glean and gather
BY LISA RAATIKAINEN
Waste not, want not in this modern practice with ancient roots.
My blessed son
BY GLORIA KEMPTON
Not all those who wander are lost.
Sounding Board
Deeply Devoted
BY NATHANIEL HUNTER
Personal devotions point to where Christ’s light shines the brightest.
In Person
Binding wounds
BY ANN CHRISTENSON
For this trauma counselor, working with sex abuse survivors is a God-driven vocation.
Home Faith
We need a sign
BY ANNEMARIE SCOBEY-POLACHECK
A parent’s job is to protect what is sacred—no matter what.
