May 2024
VOL. 89, NO. 5
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Features
Surviving in the vineyard
BY DON CLEMMER
Being an employee of the church comes with a unique set of pitfalls.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Little things
BY EMILY SANNA
A toddler’s compassion contains lessons on the relationships between all of creation.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
After Christianity
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
Nobel Prize-winner Jon Fosse’s Septology is both an aesthetic joy and a devotional exercise.
SALT & LIGHT
What must be done?
BY MEGHAN J. CLARK
Vincentian spirituality calls us to pay attention to every form of poverty.
MARGIN NOTES
Up in the sky
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Junk in space is a big problem.
TESTAMENTS
How to be Catholic
BY ALICE CAMILLE
As we prepare for the next Jubilee Year, examine what it means to be church together.
GLAD YOU ASKED
Departments
Editors’ Note
You May Be Right (Letters to the Editor)
From the Archives
Poetry
Reviews (Music, Film, Books)
Eye of the Beholder (Art meditation)
In Person
Good shepherd
BY JEANNINE M. PITAS
For educator Kay Perdue Meadows, creativity is essential to a child’s faith life.
Essays
The poverty gospel
BY CALEB MURRAY
For the Millennial middle class, poverty offers new perspectives on solidarity.
An inconvenient truth
BY RENÉE RODEN
Is the church becoming a chaplain of capitalism?
Sounding Board
Soldiers of the Lord
BY KEVIN P. CONSIDINE
Are militaristic religious metaphors meant to be taken literally?
Expert Witness
Seeds of liberation
An interview with Cedar Monroe
The solution to poverty lies in the leadership of poor communities, says this author and activist.
Home Faith
God’s eye is on the sparrow
BY SHANNON WIMP SCHMIDT
Parents need to trust the paths their kids choose.
