May 2025
VOL. 90, NO. 5
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Features
Holy defiance
The holy women of the Hebrew Bible were anything but meek and subservient.
Columns
THE EXAMINED LIFE
Can you do this?
BY FATHER TOM MCGANN
Jesus calls us to be broken in order to feed others.
CULTURE IN CONTEXT
Against erasure
BY DANNY DUNCAN COLLUM
I’m Still Here explores how memory, resilience, and hope can lead to justice—even in the darkest times.
SALT & LIGHT
Love without limits
BY DAVID CLOUTIER
Christian love must always extend to those in need, wherever they are.
MARGIN NOTES
Murderous impact
BY KEVIN CLARKE
Abandoning USAID has deadly consequences
TESTAMENTS
Ask away
BY ALICE CAMILLE
Jesus welcomes questions—as long as they’re the right kind.
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
Man of letters
BY KELLY SANKOWSKI
Malachy Fallon works to make religious resources accessible to all.
Essays
Mary, mother of boys
BY KATHLEEN BONNETTE
Parents of boys should consider Mary as a model for how to raise them well.
Wonderful are your works
BY ELLYN SANNA
Disabled saints proclaimed the glory of the image of God with their bodies.
Sounding Board
Raising men
BY SHANNON TL KEARNS
Men today face a crisis of identity—how can the church help?
Expert Witness
The troubled gender
An interview with Angela Denker
Myths around white Christian manhood are harming men and boys.
Home Faith
The present moment
BY TERESA CODA
Where there is love, there is pain. But we can still celebrate the joy of each moment.
