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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.
FaithFaith in Focus
Kaya Oakes
Discovering that a pivotal figure like Esther, who saves her people from death, also happens to be childless, can help us understand that childlessness in Scripture cannot be understood only as a curse.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
Chris Stedman's new book is the perfect guide to unpacking what identity means in the digital age.
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
What Julian of Norwich can teach us about oneness with God.
Since the founding of the first Cristo Rey school in Chicago in 1996, Cristo Rey schools have become a national network with multiple religious orders as sponsors (photo: Sage Baggott).
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
Since their founding in 1996, Cristo Rey schools have become a national network with multiple religious orders as sponsors.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
A prolific Catholic writer is himself now the subject of a biography from Liturgical Press.
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
Just as there is a growing number of nones, there is also a growing interest in spiritual direction.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kaya Oakes
The question of what a pilgrimage means in the modern day loops throughout Timothy Egan’s ‘A Pilgrimage to Eternity.’
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
Working for the church can make it hard to believe in it.
Arts & CultureFilm
Kaya Oakes
Joe Talbot’s film raises the question: what does it mean to belong to a place?
FaithFeatures
Kaya Oakes
Because the church has long defined marriage as central to lay Catholic identity, Catholic single mothers have sometimes stayed hidden in the shadows.