Culture
Review
To Serve God and Mammon
The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann Melville House, 2016 Last year, the aptly named Pastor Creflo Dollar, …
By Gordon Haber
Report
The Dangerous Faith of a Notorious Drug Lord
Nothing and no one will make me change: not even the lies or the rumors that are said against me. I have decided to …
By Alfredo Garcia
Essay
Remembering Daniel Berrigan (1921-2016): Priest, Poet, and Pacifist
Daniel Berrigan, the radical priest who helped to redefine what it means to be a Roman Catholic in post-Vatican II America, died on April 30 …
By Shawn F. Peters
Essay
The EU-Turkey Agreement on Refugees: Echo of a Tragic Past
The European Union started deporting hundreds of refugees in early April. As of March 20, the EU will return to Turkey all new refugees who …
By Greg Goalwin
Essay
A Hospital Tradition Remembers the Youngest Patients
“How many children do you have?” I asked a colleague as we started to get to know each other a few months ago. “One,” she …
By Wendy Cadge
Interview
American Catholicism in Public Life: An Interview with Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Last month, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Catholic archbishop of New York, gave a public lecture at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a homecoming …
By Tiffany Stanley
Essay
Is God Dead? A TIME Cover Turns 50
On Good Friday in April 1966, fifty years ago this month, Time magazine published its famously controversial cover story, “Is God Dead?” Placing that stark …
By Leigh Eric Schmidt
Review
What Happened to the Jesus People?
Evangelical hippies in the 1970s were known for flashing their “one-way” sign—an index finger pointing upward that signaled an alternative to the counter-cultural peace sign …
By Mark Hulsether
Report
The Moral Vision of Bernie Sanders
Last September, Bernie Sanders arrived at Liberty University, in Virginia, to give a major speech about religion, faith, and the moral bankruptcy of the American …
By Michael Schulson
Report
The Liberation Theology of Dr. Paul Farmer
J ust weeks ago, during a February visit to Mexico, Pope Francis gave a Mass at Ecatepec, a slum outside of Mexico City. The teaching …
By M. Sophia Newman