Summer 2024

Searching for Home

Home. The source of so much longing, yet also often the site of pain accumulated over lifetimes of loss and alienation. What’s going on in the late modern era that “home” feels so elusive? What is home, actually?

Comment’s summer issue delves into these questions at personal, communal, and national levels. In it you will find negotiations and contentions, confessions and gestures toward a world where everyone might find their place of belonging. Join our authors as they—and we—search for home.

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In The Print Issue

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Editorial

Anne Snyder

Homeless Homemakers

A call to the displaced.

07

Essay

Alberto La Rosa Rojas

Liturgies of Belonging

A theology of migrant experience.

17

Essay

Phil Klay

In the Age of Proxy Nationalism

Patriotism is great as long as it’s for someone else’s country.

29

Essay

Erin Plunkett

Walking Homeward

Leaving the faith, seeking faith.

40

Essay

Yolanda Pierce

Leaving

Searching for safety, hungry for growth.

51

Essay

Chris Owen

The Truth Will Lead You Home

Why do we cling to our denials, delusions, and deceits?

63

Essay

Laura Fabrycky

Motherhood and the Intellectual Life

What kind of knowing is maternal knowing?

78

The Welcome Table

Gregory Thompson

Home Is Where the Welcome Is

On hospitality and trauma.

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Essay
- Gustavo H. R. Santos
Homemade Tales

The paradoxical power of domestic workers.
Essay
- Mary Grace Mangano
The Ache for Home

The hard, active work of belonging begins with our neighbour but ends in God.
Essay
- Jean-Christophe Jasmin
Is There a Common Canadian Culture?

What Quebec has to do with Canada (and Canada has to do with America).
Symposium
Home for the Unhoused

Clarity from the streets.
Essay
- Nicholas Rethemeier
The Loneliness Index

Plotting geographically where isolation happens, and how.