We are witnessing a dehumanization of society driven by a covert, reductionist ideology. We need a return to a non-reductionist anthropology, rooted in classical conceptions of the human good.

Xavier Symons on public health, COVID, and Kheriaty’s ‘The New Abnormal’

We are living in an era of crisis, which, if responded to correctly, can lead to a whole series of opportunities to change how we “do religion.”

Philip Jenkins on the decline and growth of religion in the 21st Century

Given all the transformations wrought and about to be wrought by COVID-19, we will see much more attention paid to the role of plagues, pandemics, and pestilences in shaping human affairs.

Andrew Latham looks to microbes to explain macro-changes in history.

Dark as this may seem, it opens the door to the only true agency that we have in such circumstances: the choice between hope and despair, between faith and doubt.

Micah Heinz reads Albert Camus during the Coronavirus.

For however emptied out a religious rite might appear, it still confirms that the unnamable experience of death has a place within the universe.

Donato Loia reflects on rituals of death in the modern world.

The love of one’s neighbor—or of the stranger, the enemy, the other, or humanity in general—has a complex genealogy in the Christian ‘West.’

Sarah Louise MacMillen writes on the genealogy of neighborly love and solidarity.

A pandemic forces us to confront one of the most important and essential religious problems: the problem of theodicy.

Donato Loia meditates on certainty, faith, and an empty St. Peter’s Square.

Kirsten Hall revisits literary history and compares our current COVID-19 pandemic to pandemics of the past.