The Christian Century

Consent, outrage, and the abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk

The philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Fred Rogers are helping me make sense of the shameful...

January 19, Epiphany 2C (John 2:1-11)

Mary reminds us that sometimes we get involved in the need right in front of us simply because we...

We still need books about biblical women’s liberation

Two new ones by Susan Hylen and Nijay Gupta offer correctives many churches have not yet...

Who’s doing our dirty work?

Eyal Press looks inside the daily lives of prison workers, drone warriors, and...

Why was the apostle Paul in prison so often?

Perhaps for the same reasons people are...

The five spiritual senses

Lessons from Maximus the Confessor and my...

How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult

Early-20th-century European and North American missionaries grew concerned about it—but never in their own...

Finding God outside the church walls

The Spirit is God’s wild card, played over and over again when old forms...

Wrinkling identity

Ava DuVernay's film creates a pathway for viewers to experience the beauty of L'Engle's story through multiple lenses.

Landmark Luther exhibits explore his technological and theological legacy

Three interconnected U.S. shows, taken together, represent the most extensive display of Martin Luther–related materials ever collected outside…