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Drew Christiansen
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).
Articles by Drew Christiansen
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
Just war, nonviolence, and the prophetic versus the pastoral.
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
A boy's life in Staten Island
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
The biblical landscape of the Gospels is fast disappearing
In All Things
Sola Scriptura?
Drew Christiansen
Austen Ivereigh has done a great service by getting beneath the tabloid headlines about gay bishops and same-sex marriage to point out that the underlying difference in the Anglican Communion as found in the recent meeting of dissidents in Jerusalem has to do with the literal interpretation of scr
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
Intellectuals today lack a depth of dedication to the poor
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
The Information Age has been eclipsed by instantaneous infotainment
The New Atheism
Drew Christiansen
Five scholars on the "secret motives" of atheism, and how Christians might respond
America's Century: Celebrating our centennial: 1909-2009
Drew Christiansen

With its April 14, 2008 issue, America began its 100th year of publication. Throughout our centennial year, we have been featuring articles and online features highlighting the magazines’ past, while also looking to the future. We invite you to browse through our selection of centennial features below, and visit us again as we continue to celebrate this important birthday.

Watch a brief history of America’s 100 years below:

View a slideshow of artwork and photographs tracing America’s 100 year history. 

Editor-in-chief Robert Hartnett, S.J., waged a long-running battles against Senator Joe McCarthy in the pages of America. Read "Cold Warrior."

John LaFarge, S.J., played a key role in the early days of the civil rights movement while he was an editor at America. Read "The Manner is Extraordinary."

James T. Keane talks about America’s colorful history on our October 27 podcast. Listen to this episode.

From Our Pages: Legendary Washington Post columnist Mary McGrory got her start at America, covering John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Read "Washington Front."

Richard H. Tierney substantially changed America from a pacific and low-profile magazine into a controversial journal of opinion on the international political scene. Read "A Bold New Direction." 

From Our Pages: "Why Some Look Up to Planets and Heroes," a poem by Thomas Merton from 1963.

From Our Pages: "The Diabolic Plot," by Dorothy Day, from 1933.

Read about the idosyncratic editor who was instrumental in the founding of America: "A Certain Independence of Character."

In All Things
The Duty to Protect
Drew Christiansen
Forty-five years ago this month Pope John XXIII published his ground-breaking encyclical Pacem in Terris Peace on Earth arguing that world peace depended on respect for and promotion of human rights On Friday April 18 just a week after the Pacem in Terris anniversary Pope Benedict XVI addr
Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
  With this issue America begins its 100th year of publication, rounding out a century of service to Catholic intellectual life in the United States. Writing in the inaugural issue, dated April 17, 1909, the magazine’s founding editor, John J. Wynne, S.J., wrote that “the object, sc