NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND - JULY 24: Newport Folk Festival kicks off in grand style with a surprise headlining pairing of Roger Waters and My Morning Jacket, joined by Lucius providing background vocals. Other acts performing include Heartless Bastards, Iron & Wine and Sam Bridwell, Tallest Man On Earth, Strand Of Oaks, Calexico, Hiss Golden Messenger, Leon Bridges, and Angel Olsen. Shot at Fort Adams State Park on Friday, July 24, 2015.

The Tallest Man on Earth

The Tallest Man on Earth distinguishes himself through a lyrical prowess that provides poignant glimpses of the human experience and natural world.

Politics and Faith

Despite a few deficiencies in tone and rigor, Stone’s book provides valuable insight into the timeliness and relevance of the teachings of two of the 20th century’s greatest theologians.

You Can’t Choose Your Friends

In a culture obsessed with choice and individual responsibility, the persistent realness of friendship denies our persistent attempts to define and contain it.

Why Priests? A Failed Tradition

Trying to elevate the vocation of prophet, Garry Willis gives priests short shrift.

The Fare Forward Interview with Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a novelist and essayist. She is the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2005), the National Humanities Medal (2012), and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016). She taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from 1991 until 2016. She has published collections of essays on topics ranging from nuclear pollution to American democracy to the human mind. Jack, her fifth novel and the fourth concerning the people of Gilead, Iowa, was published in September of this year. Robinson spoke to Fare Forward about evil, heroes, and the future of the American project.

Opening Remarks

Opening Remarks from the Editor

The Life of Perished Things

By Joshua Rio-Ross. Reflections on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping forty years after its release.

Not Also Lost

By Kaylene Graham. A reflection on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping after 40 years.

Dear Son

By Allen Reynolds. A pastor's letter to his son.

The Good Life is Slow

By Alex Engebretson. The slow pace and deep delight in the beauty of the world that characterize Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels can counter-catechize us to the demands of our liberal, capitalist society. The Church should take advantage of that.