"As to the pain of preparing and delivering, that’s dissolved into standing up and letting Jesus speak. All preachers need do is let this happen." Paul J. Griffiths on the homiletical scene: commonwealmagazine.org/hearing-homili…

"We also begin to discern two distinct attitudes toward the wilderness, and more generally toward the ideal of wandering versus the urge to build a home and stay put." Rabbi Philip Graubart on wandering in the Hebrew Bible: commonwealmagazine.org/wander-or-stay…

In a Mexico City migrant encampment, conditions are staggeringly poor—and gaining entry to the United States is the ultimate hope. A photo essay by Joseph Sorrentino: commonwealmagazine.org/its-worth-it

"The freedom to yell at each other is not enough. We really have to learn and teach students how they can persuade each other." Fordham president Tania Tetlow on the role of the Catholic university: commonwealmagazine.org/mission-territ…

On this NEW EPISODE of the podcast, Garth Greenwell speaks about his latest novel, set in a midwestern ICU during the early days of the pandemic. Listen now! commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/epic-e…

"There are no toilets in the encampment, so the only options are places—usually small restaurants or homes—that charge people to use their bathrooms." Capturing life in a Mexico City migrant camp: commonwealmagazine.org/its-worth-it

"When I heard about his death, I grieved. For days I grieved. I found myself whispering to him as if he had indeed been my child." Kathleen Hill on memory, storytelling, and David Foster Wallace: commonwealmagazine.org/finding-faith-…

A pleasure to talk with Garth Greenwell for Commonweal Magazine. "Small Rain" is an exceptional novel. commonwealmagazine.org/podcast/epic-e…

What's behind America's loneliness crisis? The big story is that American agency is withering fast. An essay by Ian Marcus Corbin: commonwealmagazine.org/whats-behind-a…

"Blackburn’s tale imparts another insight about human instincts: there will always be those who seek to blame the sick for their own illnesses, as well as those who wish to profit from them." Brendan Ruberry reviews ‘Loose of Earth': commonwealmagazine.org/lifestyle-choi…

"And then my eleven-year-old son leaned over and asked me, 'Mom, what was ‘January 6’?" Mollie Wilson O’Reilly on parenting during our long Trump ordeal: commonwealmagazine.org/it-happened-he…

"It is hard to overstate how poor the living conditions at the trackside encampment are. The shacks are all tiny." Joseph Sorrentino photographs the lives of migrants in Mexico City: commonwealmagazine.org/its-worth-it

"For Jeremiah, the wilderness is a honeymoon setting, a paradise of distilled spirituality and uncomplicated love." Rabbi Philip Graubart on diaspora, Zion, and the Torah: commonwealmagazine.org/wander-or-stay…

"From 1939 to 1948, Jews experienced in dizzying succession both the worst nightmares of wandering and the absolute, existential necessity of rootedness." — Rabbi Philip Graubart commonwealmagazine.org/wander-or-stay…

.Ian Marcus Corbin: Loneliness-production has been a big business for a very long time commonwealmagazine.org/whats-behind-a…

"Anxiety grows out of self-consciousness, which is why elements like water are so tantalizing. They represent existence unbound by selfhood." Jordan Burke reviews Anne Carson's ‘Wrong Norma’: commonwealmagazine.org/hard-swerves

"The appeal to 'freedom' is part of American democracy’s DNA. It has often gravely distorted the moral vision of Americans." Paul Baumann's on Kamala Harris's language of "freedom": commonwealmagazine.org/freedom-what

Anne Carson’s newest collection of essays and poems probes the relationship between art and suffering. Jordan Burke reviews: commonwealmagazine.org/hard-swerves

Should Democrats define themselves through an appeal to "freedom"? commonwealmagazine.org/freedom-what

"Poverty closely parallels God in this collection. Carson has an affinity for mystics." In her new collection, Anne Norton explores anxiety, poverty, art, and God: commonwealmagazine.org/hard-swerves