Issue 02: How Do You Pray? Is Now Live!!!!!
ISSUE ARCHIVE
This section is the living archive of Both Sides Now, a home for each of our quarterly issues as they’re released into the world. Each issue centers on a single question or tension shaping public life, explored through essays, interviews, and visual work that resist easy answers. Together, they reflect our commitment to nuance, dialogue, and complexity, offering readers a space to sit with ideas, encounter perspectives beyond their own, and return to conversations that continue to evolve long after publication.
Issue 01:
The State of Women
Across political, cultural, and ideological divides, women are consistently perceived, evaluated, and assigned worth based on appearance—both externally in how they look and internally in how they perform identity—revealing a shared experience of scrutiny that transcends partisan lines.
Thesis
Across political, cultural, and ideological divides, women are consistently perceived, evaluated, and assigned worth based on appearance—both externally in how they look and internally in how they perform identity—revealing a shared experience of scrutiny that transcends partisan lines.
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Issue 02:
How Do You Pray?
Across religious, secular, and personal frameworks, prayer is often understood as a fixed and sacred act tied to organized belief. In practice, it is far more expansive. It can take the form of ritual or instinct, silence or sound, devotion or doubt. This range reveals a shared impulse to reach beyond oneself and make meaning in relation to the unknown.
Thesis
In How Do You Pray?, we explore how individuals define and engage with the transcendent, however it is understood. By shifting the focus from doctrine to lived experience, we examine prayer as a flexible and evolving language that reflects longing, gratitude, grief, and uncertainty across belief systems. Through reflection, storytelling, and dialogue, we seek to expand what prayer can be and open space for a more nuanced understanding of faith, meaning, and connection.
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