Lawrence’s triumphant arrival in Damascus in 1918 might be said to have been the spark that ultimately ignited a powder keg of factional rivalries and distrust.
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How to experience the Bible in a digital world
A 21st-century arts collective revives illustrating the Bible for the digital age.
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Jordan Peterson understands your suffering
Peterson urges his followers to seek deep meaning rather than superficial happiness. But can he create a community?
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An Olympic salute to black power: what it means 50 years later
When Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the Olympic podium, their act drew widespread criticism. Now Colin Kaepernick is the face of Nike.
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Kanye West, S.N.L. and the incoherence of modern life
Kanye is id-made-flesh, an extreme and uncomfortable example of what we all look like when turned inside out.
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Can you build a profitable church on the margins?
A new season of the podcast “Startup” takes us into the church planting movement
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Meet Atticus, the Instagram poet who never takes off his mask
“Atticus is a storyteller, observer…. He loves the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with words.”
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The Mission San Xavier del Bac: A Shrine Without Borders
The mission’s founder, an energetic Italian Jesuit named Eusebio Francisco Kino, established several missionary locations in what is now Sonora, Mexico, and southern Arizona, including San Xavier del Bac in 1692, near the village of Wa:k.
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10 years after the financial crisis, how Catholics can rebuild broken solidarity
The Catholic Church has not been quick or consistent in empowering people to address the harmful effects of the new global economy.
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Meet the team breaking new ground in filmmaking (and fundraising) to bring Jesus’ beatitudes to life
“8beats,” the brainchild of the Catholic Creatives, is an ambitious new project: a cinematic anthology on the beatitudes.