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Modest Proposals

by Asma Ghribi,

From a list of rules the Islamic State has imposed within territories it has claimed since 2013. Translated from the Arabic by Asma Ghribi.

My App Runneth Over

From posts to Instapray, an app that allows users to post and request prayers. God, please help me overcome my Internet addiction. It is ruining my life. Who wants to…

Going It Alone

by Fenton Johnson,

The dignity and challenge of solitude

Church Going

by Garry Wills,

From The Future of the Catholic Church with Pope Francis, by Garry Wills, out this month from Viking. Wills holds the Alonzo L. McDonald Family Chair at Emory and is…

Some Notes on Song

by John Berger,

The rhythms of listening

Francis and the Nuns

by Mary Gordon,

Is the new Vatican all talk?

Thy Kingdom Plumb

From “Holy Springs and Holy Water: Underestimated Sources of Illness?” published last year in the Journal of Water and Health.

L’amour filial

by Charlotte Brontë,Translated by Sue Lonoff de Cuevas,

By Charlotte Brontë, from an essay written while she was a twenty-six-year-old student at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels. The essay, dated August 5, 1842, was discovered last year in…

In the Republic

by Anonymous,

Photographs from Iran

Darling

by Richard Rodriguez,

A middle-aged woman in a brown wool suit tapped my shoulder after mass. She knew my name. She said she had read an interview I gave to an online magazine…

Blinded by the Right?

by T. M. Luhrmann,

How hippie Christians begat evangelical conservatives