As Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization moves forward, her writings continue to offer a prophetic Christian witness to a complacent world.
Literature
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What kind of Catholic are you? How Mary Gordon’s writing tackles the expansiveness of our faith
Mary Gordon is one of America’s greatest Catholic writers—just don’t ask her why she stayed.
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Review: Why we get trapped in conflict, in our families and our politics
Amanda Ripley’s new book offers powerful advice on how to step outside the traps we all fall into when navigating situations of conflict.
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Remembering Barry Lopez, lyrical travel writer and ecological prophet
In almost 20 books published over half a century, Barry Lopez always maintained a tight focus on the interconnectedness—and spiritual value—of all life, from the smallest mushroom to the largest forest.
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Willie James Jennings exposes one of academia’s greatest problems: Non-white students don’t feel like they belong.
Willie James Jennings belongs to a guild in which he never felt he belonged. How do we remake the world of theological education when it still holds up what Jennings calls “white self-sufficient masculinity” as the ideal?
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Review: The racism in Western theological education
In his analysis of Western theological education, Willie James Jennings argues for an institution that does not replicate structures of exclusion or division, but rather reflects the image of the body of Christ.
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Baseball is a sport of good vs. evil. But this World Series, maybe the Astros and the Braves both deserve to lose?
With the World Series upon us, a look back at some of America’s finest coverage of baseball.
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From 1988: Bart Giamatti on the serious business of sportswriting
In 1988, A. Bartlett Giamatti, later the commissioner of Major League Baseball, addressed the American Society of Newspaper Editors. His speech was printed in America .
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Sally Rooney isn’t just the ‘Snapchat Generation’s’ Catholic novelist (but she is that).
Is Sally Rooney the millennial generation’s great Catholic writer?
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Review: Sally Rooney writes for millennials in a post-Catholic world
Sally Rooney writes for an audience that lacks faith in an institutional church, yet yearns for something to believe in. She writes for me and my friends.