November 2015

Inside a Monastery of Encloistered Nuns

An artist spent ten years getting to know a group of strictly encloistered nuns and has written a book about what she found. ELIZABETH?EISENSTADT?EVANS reports.

This Week’s Issue

Bishop responds to big drought A personal memory of closing of Vatican II How Christ is the key to our solidarity Inside nuns’ enclosed monastery

Fight the Real Enemy

The day after the terror attacks in Beirut and Paris, a group of Palestinians stood outside the church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the birthplace of the...

Are you the Messiah?

There is a story about the Messiah. It’s from M Scott Peck’s book The Different Drum, and is titled The Rabbi’s Gift. It goes like this:  A decaying...