By CANA

Our Departments

Opinions

The Opinions Department focuses on analyzing and dissecting issues important to the University of Chicago community and the beyond. In each issue, writers across all programs give their perspective ranging from politics and history to philosophy and economics. The section includes a diverse set of perspectives, reflecting the diversity of our campus and the Christian tradition.  Ultimately, the Opinions Department aims to create thoughtful and relevant content that will move our readers toward a deeper understanding of the world.

Features

The Features Department focuses on providing personal faces to the issues we examine. The Features Departments interviews and profiles relevant faculty, staff, community workers, and students, creating a space for honest and challenging dialogue. Through crafting engaging profiles, Features hopes to highlight the diversity of perspectives that constitute our community and show the personal implications of the issues it covers.

Literature

The Literature Department engages cultural issues through the genre of literature. Through poetry and prose, Literature provides unique spaces to interrogate challenging issues by appealing to our aesthetic judgements. Founded on the idea that literature provides insight into profound human truths, Literature hopes to show how good literature guides us toward understanding and living well.

Culture

The Culture Department focuses on providing cultural commentary from a Christian perspective. Culture writers provide reviews and commentaries on the  books, movies, music, plays, etc in our social imagination from a Christian lens, living out the call to live in the world but not be of it.

Layout

The Layout Departments focuses on conveying the content and message of CANA in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Through creative magic (and indesign) the Layout Department defines CANAs brand and style.

Copy

The Copy department makes sure the issue is free of all grammatical errors. Copy maintains the journal’s stylistic integrity, creating a seamless reading experience for CANA’s readers.  

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By CANA Podcasts

Episode Two: Myles Hudson on Pluralism​

Welcome to the second interview of the first CANA interview series. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be taking you through an exploration of this issue of Pluralism in the university community. We’ve gathered a diverse group of Christian perspectives on the issue, to provoke a conversation on how we navigate our deepest differences.

Our second interview is with Myles Hudson. Myles is a sophomore at the university of Chicago and is involved student government

Today’s interviewer is Joshua Mckie

Joshua is the Features Editor of CANA. Joshua hails from New York, New York and majors in Fundamentals. His interest is in the intersection of religion and public life and social entrepreneurship.

We hope you enjoy their discussion

Podcasts

Episode One: Rachel Fulton Brown on Pluralism

Opinions

American Evangelicalism in Perspective: An Introduction to America’s most contested politico-religous group

Archives

The Pluralism Issue