Comment Magazine

“Work is a primary way we give expression to our status as imago Dei, but it is not a portal to transcend it.”

Adam Gustine on learning to love sacred and unholy labour.

Soiled Work A look at the dirty work the "faith and work" conversation often forgets.

“The dominant metaphors of calling, fulfillment, and cultural engagement assume a degree of choice and agency.”

Case Thorp on Simone Weil and the blue-collar failure of the faith and work movement.

The Workers We Cannot Reach There is some work that dehumanizes us, Weil showed us how to talk about it.

“The sacred character of Armenian letters extends beyond stone and wood into ink and parchment, appearing in the illuminated manuscripts that helped sustain Armenian devotion and identity.”

An Alphabet for Theophany Armenian letters are a threshold for participating in the sacred.

“My own tendency toward melancholy turned abysmal that summer I turned nineteen; the mental health troubles have been rumbling along ever since, sometimes as a background hum, sometimes as a debilitating cacophony.”

Strange Remedies A father wrestles with his daughter's depression and the Canadian government's MAiD policy.

“AI pantomimes the real, caricatures the soul, and offers a poor replacement for the care that women stake off as their own, claim as our birthright.”

Rachel Roth Aldhizer on the care and presence of women in a world of artificial intelligence.

The Labour of Presence A woman's work, the work of care and presence, is something a machine cannot replace.

“Our primary concern was parenting, not policy, but I felt like I was having to block my daughter from running down a very dark road the government was trying to clear for her.”

W.R. Thomsen on fish oil, MAiD, and why the personal is political.

Strange Remedies A father wrestles with his daughter's depression and the Canadian government's MAiD policy.

Is organized religion vital to the health of democratic life? And how is it different from “spiritual but not religious”?

Matthew Kaemingk and Shadi Hamid take up a central argument from their new book.

Why Democracy Needs Religion—Not “Spirituality” Within our American context, “spiritual but not religious” is an increasingly popular title. It connotes rising above organized religion and opting instead for an individualistic, buffet-like spirituality that reflects our modern consumerist culture. In this episode, Matt and Shadi unpack this t...

“The alphabet became more than a practical tool. It bound together religion, language, and identity in ways that endure to this day.”

Arthur Aghajanian on Armenian letters as a threshold for participating in the sacred.

An Alphabet for Theophany Armenian letters are a threshold for participating in the sacred.

What does it look like for American Muslim communities to engage in political life? Omar Suleiman joins Zealots at the Gate to talk political participation, assimilation, and what it means to be Muslim and American.

How to Be a Muslim and an American What does it look like for American Muslim communities to engage in the political landscape of the twenty-first century? In light of Republican and Democratic culpability in Gaza, how can Muslims maintain their integrity as well as their political participation? Join us as we talk with Omar Suleiman...

“When we cross borders—places that remind us of divisions, separations—why is it that we find connection at tables, “at board,” as we once said?”

Joy Moore on the ark of an American-Ukrainian friendship.

Dreaming the Door Unsealed The ark of an American-Ukrainian friendship across borders, tables, and war.

“Whereas Europe may have developed the new painterly styles we name Impressionism or Post-Impressionism, North America boasted landscapes especially worthy of these new techniques, summoning creation to disclose her secrets, secrets that are laid bare in the heart of Toronto today.”

Toronto the Holy The Group of Seven has left a legacy of artistic brilliance—and Christian identity—in Canadian painting.