Voices
Drew Christiansen, S.J., served as the editor in chief of America from 2005 to 2012. He was a Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Human Development at Georgetown University and a senior fellow with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. He was co-editor with Carole Sargent of A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (Georgetown, 2020).
In All Things
On a night when the Packers took on the Bears last Thursday evening I found myself in Milwaukee speaking to a crowd of 450 friends of the Wisconsin Jesuits about the state of electoral politics in the U S The invitation came from the Jesuit Partnership Council a lay group that garners suppo
Of Many Things
For great swaths of the church today, dialogue is an undeniable sign of the times.
In All Things
The Responsibility to Protect the innovative international law doctrine that establishes a framework for international intervention in the domestic life of countries where significant numbers of people are subject to violence or grave deprivation seems tailor-made for the current civil war in Syri
The role of spiritual conversation in pastoral care
In All Things
Our editor Drew Christiansen S J submitted this letter to the editor to the New York Times in response to Ross Douthat s recent column Can Liberal Christianity Be Saved Ross Douthat attributes the loss of adherence in western churches to progressive theology In particular he assigns the
Catholic Book Club
When historians write the history of the development of our political ideas and institutions this past quarter century they would be amply justified to label it ldquo an unexpected revolution rdquo For beginning in the early 1990s there has been a proliferation of new practices and institutions
In All Things
I woke up Sunday morning July 1 to the voice of National Public Radio rsquo s Krista Tippet posing gentle questions to philosopher Jacob Needleman on his book American Soul Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders The segment entitled ldquo The Inward Work of Democracy rdquo explained how ever
Of Many Things
Former editor in chief Drew Christiansen, S.J., on the lost season of Pentecost
Of Many Things
Uri Mor worked tirelessly on behalf of Christians, often at cost to himself.