Issue 22: Sickness & Health
$4.00 – $15.00
Description
From doctors and patients alike, we’ve collected essays on late-stage cancer, intergenerational illness, vexing autoimmune disorders, miscarriage—and faith in the supernatural enduring it all. In interviews, Ross Douthat recounts his experience of chronic Lyme disease, while Daniel Harris challenges popular notions about disability. We consult journalist Rina Raphael about the multibillion-dollar wellness industry and where its marketing claims lead desperate American consumers astray. Physician Lydia Dugdale explains how art can influence the way we live and die, and theologian Simeon Zahl lays out how the Church might offer ordinary people a cure for soul-sickness—and why it often fails to.
We reckoned directly with the limitations of the body while paying close attention to whatever lay submerged beneath what the eye can see. Under the skin of this issue there pulses a steady understanding that, whether in sickness or in health, our most abiding unwellnesses require abiding tonics: unconditional love, mercy, and grace.
To tide you over while you wait for the issue, we’ve doctored a little elixir in the form of an issue-themed playlist, with tunes by Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, The Band, and many others.
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Description
From doctors and patients alike, we’ve collected essays on late-stage cancer, intergenerational illness, vexing autoimmune disorders, miscarriage—and faith in the supernatural enduring it all. In interviews, Ross Douthat recounts his experience of chronic Lyme disease, while Daniel Harris challenges popular notions about disability. We consult journalist Rina Raphael about the multibillion-dollar wellness industry and where its marketing claims lead desperate American consumers astray. Physician Lydia Dugdale explains how art can influence the way we live and die, and theologian Simeon Zahl lays out how the Church might offer ordinary people a cure for soul-sickness—and why it often fails to.
We reckoned directly with the limitations of the body while paying close attention to whatever lay submerged beneath what the eye can see. Under the skin of this issue there pulses a steady understanding that, whether in sickness or in health, our most abiding unwellnesses require abiding tonics: unconditional love, mercy, and grace.
To tide you over while you wait for the issue, we’ve doctored a little elixir in the form of an issue-themed playlist, with tunes by Belle & Sebastian, Bloc Party, The Band, and many others.
