After enduring persecution, violence and uprooting, a group of Iraqi religious and laypeople are on the path to healing.
Health and Wellness
Posted inFaith, Features
When professional Catholics burn out
Working for the church can make it hard to believe in it.
Posted inFaith, News
Boy’s removal from church spurs debate in UK on welcoming those with autism
The Rimmers’ visit brought headlines and an apology from the dean of the chapel and inspired a debate about how churches treat children and adults with autism after Rimmer was asked to remove 9-year-old Tristan, who has autism, for making too much noise.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
How should art address addiction? These two films give us a clue.
Should filmmakers make the pain of addiction bearable to watch? In “Beautiful Boy” and “Ben is Back” they try.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: The unhealthy state of U.S. health care
The costs of medicine in the United States are addressed in different, though complementary, ways in two new books on broken U.S. health care.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Catholics need a better way to talk about women’s bodies. Here’s a good place to start.
We are bad at talking about women’s bodies—a fact that constrains and distorts our conversations about and policies related to women’s health.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Kate Bowler on the spiritual myths about health
Kate Bowler talks with the hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura and Zac Davis, and explains what her cancer diagnosis taught her about American Christianity and more.
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
The opioid crisis demands a new solution. Churches are hoping to be part of it
The solution to the “current opioid crisis is one that involves the whole person.”
Posted inFaith, Short Take
What our lonely culture can learn from L’Arche, the Last Supper and ‘love feasts’
The United States is suffering from an epidemic of despair. The Doctrine of the Twelve Apostles, one of the earliest descriptions of a Christian community, offers one way to cultivate love.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Living and loving with cystic fibrosis in ‘Five Feet Apart’
For people living with this chronic illness seeing aspects of their daily life on screen can be startling and affirming.