Our staff's Christmas picks

Features in the December 7, 2016 issue

Eleven CC staff members make their selections:

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Celeste Kennel-Shank, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Richardson, Debra Bendis, David Heim, Amy Frykholm, Peter W. Marty, Steve Thorngate, Rachel Pyle, Janet Milkovich

This article appears in the December 7, 2016 issue.

The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

by Mac Loftin

Features

Against killing children

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

by Wendell Berry

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Did enslaved people write the New Testament?

Candida Moss argues that when early Christian texts were written, unpaid laborers were in the room where it happened.

by Nijay K. Gupta

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The quiet rise of Christian dominionism

Jerry Falwell wanted to prepare America for the end of the world. Ted Cruz’s evangelical backers want to take America over.

by Keri Ladner

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