Voices

Zac Davis is an associate editor and the senior director for digital strategy for America. He also co-hosts the podcast, Jesuitical. In addition to America, his writing on religion and culture has appeared in The Washington Post, Catholic News Service and other outlets.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Cyrus Habib is interrupting what had been a rapid political ascent to join the Catholic Church’s largest religious order.
Arts & CultureBooks
The stories in David Means’s latest collection demand and deserve the reader’s full participation.
CommunityYour Take
We’re relaunching the commenting experience at America.
Arts & CultureJesuitical
Hunter Harris tells us. Also: Lady Bird is the greatest Catholic School Movie ever.
Arts & CultureBooks
Kristen Arnett’s novel is about intimacy and wanting what is forbidden, about childhood and family, about absent parents and absent lovers, and about the secondhand self-destruction that can be wrought by ignoring cries of the heart.
FaithJesuitical
Nuns and Nones, an organization that brings these two groups—both spiritually seeking, both distinctly committed to justice—together for conversation, relationship and even shared housing.
Arts & CultureJesuitical
Chloe Becker was upset when she realized she could not name a single African or African-American saint.
Politics & SocietyJesuitical
Onita Estes-Hicks has been Catholic her entire life. But her relationship with her faith was forever changed in 2004.
Arts & CultureIdeas
Kate Bowler talks with the hosts of “Jesuitical,” Ashley McKinless, Olga Segura and Zac Davis, and explains what her cancer diagnosis taught her about American Christianity and more.
FaithJesuitical
Her willingness to write candidly and prophetically about her faith inspired countless believers and doubters.