Culture

Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan's Evangelical Vision by Diane Winston is a measured and meticulously detailed account of the Reagan era and its significance for today.

Rabbi Abraham Skorka and Pope Francis have studied and grieved the Holocaust together many times, but the pope's new memoir offered Skorka fresh insight into why they share a special concern about this painful issue. 

I encountered God in the movie theater watching "Manjummel Boys." The true story behind it illustrates Jesus' words: "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends."

"Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire" might be a fun two-hour escape from reality, but it spoke to writer Jonathan Tomick about accepting God's call to step into difficulty.

In The Catholic Church and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Mathew Kappadakunnel offers a unique perspective as a first-generation American of South Indian descent who has wrestled with his own call to anti-racism work. 

Katie Pruitt, a queer singer-songwriter based in Nashville, Tennessee, writes music that, with agile vocals and catchy guitar riffs, explores the fraught nature of leaving one’s childhood faith.

In her newest album, "Cowboy Carter," Beyoncé puts a nail in the coffin of what country was to make room for what it ought to be.

 A Ministry of Risk chronicles 44 years of Philip Berrigan's writings about his life of nonviolent activism, in which he spent more than 11 years in jail and prison for actions opposing war and nuclear weapons.