Myles Werntz

D. L. Mayfield, Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day’s Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Time (Minneapolis, MN: Broadleaf, 2022) When William Miller’s biography of Dorothy Day first appeared in 1982, a peculiar publishing enigma came into being: describing Dorothy Day in a single book. Miller’s book, a monumental work, suffered from the problem of trying […]

Christians are called to be present with our neighbors in times of violence, but such presence requires more than a nod to solidarity or a word of encouragement here or there—being present requires repenting of our past failures of witness and allowing that repentance to shape us.