Going Benedict, Orthodox Jewish Style

by Bethany Mandel

The Jewish community has a great deal more experience than the Christian community at operating independently of many of society’s boundaries. Continue Reading »

31 Mar 2017

Charles Taylor and the Communion of the Saints

by Dale M. Coulter

Taylor’s prescription for our secular age remains connected to his reading of Christian tradition, in particular his understanding of the communion of the saints. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2017

Can We Talk?

by Timothy George

Conversations can be deep or shallow, casual or serious, but they invariably take place as an encounter between an “I” and a “thou.” Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2017

The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

by Alan Jacobs

Debate over the Benedict Option has been conducted at the level of competing world-historical metanarratives. Instead, let’s focus on the local and personal. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2017

Pokémon Go and the Kindness of Strangers

by Alexi Sargeant

Every popular game has its naysayers, but a doom-and-gloom attitude is harder to justify when a game is pulling players out into the sunlight to discover the places and people around them—and to do some good deeds to strangers in the process. Continue Reading »

20 Jul 2016

Mobile Technology: A Complication in the Human Condition

by Micah Harris

On the surface, this is another book about how smartphones disrupt conversation. It draws from social science studies and a raft of interviews to confirm what we already knew through experience. But the book is important because it captures the other 90 percent of the iceberg: how smartphones preempt solitude and the essential connection between solitude and conversation.

17 Nov 2015

How to Strengthen Catholic Community

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

As the Synod on the Family continues, a number of Catholic writers are questioning whether it’s really nice to exclude the divorced and remarried from Communion. The people on the margins of the church, the people oppressed by sin and circumstance are the ones who can least weather being pushed . . . . Continue Reading »

22 Oct 2015

Dieting

by Russell E. Saltzman

It is time for some late summer lighthearted fun, except our household is dieting. We have gone low carb, paleo, eggplant. Yes, I know, eggplant doesn’t belong to a paleo diet. It’s cultivated. Fruits, berries, nuts, and wild roots are paleo. But with only four or so carbohydrates to a cup, . . . . Continue Reading »

27 Aug 2015

Catholicism as the Other

by Christopher Shannon

Martin Scorsese’s recent film The Gangs of New York takes us back to a time when religion, not race, set the terms for ethno-cultural conflict in America. The film begins in the 1840s with a battle between rival gangs of native (Anglo) Americans and immigrants (largely Irish, even more largely . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2004

I Heart New York

by James Nuechterlein

When the Editor-in-Chief of this journal invited me to come East to work with him and his colleagues some six and a half years ago, it was in almost every way an offer I could not refuse. It meant doing work I wanted to do in the company of people I wanted to work with. I had not previously thought . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jun 1995