Feminism is both necessary for being a Catholic woman and one of the reasons you will be tested as a Catholic feminist.
Kaya Oakes
Kaya Oakes, a contributing writer for America, teaches writing at the University of California, Berkeley. Her fifth book, The Defiant Middle, will be released in the fall of 2021.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Finding a Native American Identity in Oakland
In Tommy Orange’s debut novel, Oakland becomes a character as much as any of Orange’s other individuals: regularly erupting into violence, steadily erasing the history of its impoverished citizens who jump from apartment to apartment, existing in a series of “long, grey streets” that seem to go nowhere when you’re a kid on a bike pedaling around.
Posted inFaith, Features
What can nuns and ‘nones’ learn from one another?
The Nuns and Nones project seeks to bring these two groups together in order to explore new forms of community life, help millennials see models for sustainable activism and create an intergenerational network of connections.
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Review: How reading the bible as storybook can change the way we live
Inspired represents Held Evans’s attempt to return not to the “handbook” Bible of her adolescence but to the “storybook” Bible of her childhood.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Teachers are not soldiers. Arming them is counter to the message of the Gospels.
Teachers do not talk about being afraid of our students. We talk about being afraid for our students.
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Teaching America’s discarded youth
Review: Michelle Kuo’s “Reading With Patrick: a Teacher, a Student, and a Life-Changing Friendship”
Posted inFaith, Features
Sex abuse happens across denominations. Here’s how one Protestant minister is helping people heal
The Rev. Carol Howard Merritt says that the image of a God who suffers with us can play a role in helping people recover.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
How St. Agnes church became the first Jesuit parish in America to declare itself a sanctuary
An old Jesuit parish in San Francisco took on a new mission to help its neighbors in need.
Posted inPolitics & Society
Black Catholics bear witness to a gentrified Oakland
St. Columba began celebrating Black Catholic History Month and Kwanzaa alongside the regular events in the liturgical calendar.
Posted inFaith in Focus
Godfriends: when your godchild happens to be an adult
“What is unclear is how that role works when your godchild is a fully-formed adult.”