In the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, near Columbia University, stands a blocky 19-story limestone tower known to some as the God box. Opened in 1960, the Interchurch Center (as it's really called) stands today as a monument to the now-faded swagger of midcentury American liberal Christianity.
The old-style Commonweal Catholic may no longer quite exist. But Commonweal magazine, which describes itself as the nation's oldest independent lay-edited Catholic journal of opinion, is still very much here.
To him, it means being liberal in politics and theology, while also thinking too hard about how faith and the rest of your intellectual life mix.
Commonweal magazine is celebrating its 100th birthday with a gala, an anthology of its interviews over the years with prominent figures (Jorge Luis Borges, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Scorsese) and a 100-page centennial issue.
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