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Commonweal Magazine

Commonweal is a journal based in the United States that shares liberal viewpoints and is edited by lay Catholics. It is located at The Interchurch Center in New York City and holds the distinction of being the oldest independent Roman Catholic opinion journal in the country.

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  • 1 week ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Peter Quinn

    Some books are timely. Michael Lewis’s Who Is Government? The Untold Story of Public Serviceis urgent. The book’s stated goal is “to subvert the stereotype of the civil servant. The typecasting has always been lazy and stupid, but increasingly, it’s deadly.” It’s especially vital to get this right as the Trump administration’s unprecedented assault on federal agencies and departments shows no sign of slowing.

  • 1 week ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Kaya Oakes

    My 2015 book The Nones Are Alright explored Americans’ shift away from organized religion. For a few years I did the circuit of conferences and church talks where people kept asking the same question: What can we do to bring people back? I never had an answer that made anyone happy, because I had no idea how to bring people back. The ship had already sailed, but people were still standing on the shoreline waiting for it to turn around.

  • 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.

  • 1 week ago | commonwealmagazine.org | George Scialabba

    THE SCENE: The Last Judgment. THE CHARACTERS: Jesus, seated at the right hand of the Father; the twenty-first-century American Christian nationalist leadership (hereafter “the godly”). THE GODLY: O Lord, we thank Thee that we were not like other men (or, needless to say, women): the woke communists, the Marxist socialists, the baby-killers, the sodomites.

  • 2 weeks ago | commonwealmagazine.org | Anthony Domestico

    How have I not read Anthony Giardina before? That’s what I have been asking myself over the last several months: first, after I read Remember This (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $29, 384 pp.), maybe the best new novel I’ve read this year, and then, after I went back and read several of Giardina’s earlier books. “Could it be called a form of grace?” a character asks about a disappointment towards the end of Remember This. Disappointments can be a form of grace, yes.

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