Susan Reynolds

1 week ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Susan Reynolds

A sign at the counter of a vintage shop that I frequent reads: My grandmother owned it, my mother sold it, I just bought it back!Traditional religious faith, argues Christian Smith, has gone the way of something your grandparents owned, like, for example, a record player: a nostalgic artifact well-suited to the needs of another age but obsolete in our own. “When people can ask Alexa to play any song,” he explains by way of analogy, “they rarely think about vinyl records.

Feb 26, 2025 | commonwealmagazine.org | Susan Reynolds |Stephen Pope |George Scialabba |Helen Rouner

Every morning on the way to preschool, my daughter Julia and I drive past a Tesla dealership. Late last year, the sporty red and white electric sedans that once lined the lot were replaced by a convoy of gunmetal Cybertrucks. It looked like the dealership had been seized in a military coup. Julia calls them “diamond-shaped cars” and, sensing my disdain, wryly insists they are beautiful and she loves them.

Jul 3, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Susan Reynolds |John Fea |Brandon Ambrosino |Ian Corbin

Last month, at the annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA) in Baltimore, University of Notre Dame theology professor Mary Catherine Hilkert, OP, accepted the society’s John Courtney Murray Award. The honor, bestowed annually upon a distinguished scholar for their contributions to Catholic theology, is akin to a lifetime-achievement award. For Catholic theologians, especially women, Cathy Hilkert is a legend.

Jan 12, 2024 | respiratory-research.biomedcentral.com | Lisa Zhang |Natalie Kelly |Cynthia Hill |Jazmin Calyeca |Laura A. Matrka |Audrey Miller | +4 more

This study was approved by the institutional review boards of two tertiary-level pediatric and adult hospitals (Nationwide Children’s Hospital IRB STUDY00000847, Ohio State University 2021N0027). Pediatric and adult patients undergoing scheduled direct laryngoscopy and bronchoscopy (DLB) were voluntarily recruited. Demographics of the patients recruited were recorded. Our methods are similar to those previously described [16, 18].

Jan 2, 2024 | commonwealmagazine.org | Susan Reynolds |Cathleen Kaveny |Alexander Stern

Facing the looming weight of an academic year filled with consequential deadlines and the imminent submission of my tenure file, in August I did what any anxious scholar in my position would do: I auditioned for a play. It wasn’t just any play. It was, as far as I was concerned, the greatest play of all: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music.