Cross Currents

The burned boy of Kpando
by Dean Mayors ’73
It’s not how you play the game
by Jonathan Malesic
Love triangle
by Greer Hannan ’09, ’14MNA, ’15M.Div.
Some fun aspects of God
by Teresa H. Janssen
Destined for disarray
by Erin Buckley ’08
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by Nicholas Mainieri ’06
Here’s what can happen when grown-ups aren’t ready for their playing days to be over.

by David Shribman
‘It is the attribute not exhibited, the disposition not there, the characteristic apparent only in its absence, the one distinction demonstrated not in what is, but in what isn’t.’

by Joseph Kaboski
On the ground in Soroti, Uganda, the Notre Dame economist has been working to improve the quality of life for those whose faith has moved him.

by Debra Javeline
When hundreds of hostages were killed during a shootout in southern Russia in 2004, the world got a glimpse of how Vladimir Putin values human life.

by David McGrath
How could I forget the dirty little secret of those idyllic summers at the farm in Minnesota?

by Michael Rodio ’12
You are the first hospitalized COVID-19 patient in Minnesota and the first such patient on ECMO in the Western Hemisphere. The hospital hides your name on the records for privacy.

by Terrence Keeley ’81
When his Swiss father-in-law chose assisted suicide, the Catholic son-in-law weighed the rights and wrongs and meanings of a good death.

by John Nagy ’00M.A.
The Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities is aiming to — yes — end poverty in American through research, scholarship and frontline savvy. The early returns are encouraging.



by Dean Mayors ’73
by Jonathan Malesic
by Greer Hannan ’09, ’14MNA, ’15M.Div.
by Teresa H. Janssen
by Erin Buckley ’08