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Jonathan Falwell, the younger son of the late Jerry Falwell, was unanimously chosen June 3 to take his father’s place in the pulpit of Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virgini...

The current spate of atheist, antitheist and antireligious books has made me ask myself whether I ought to be working, strictly pro bono, for the defense....

Robert Solow on his friend Milton Friedman: “One difference between Milton and myself is that everything reminds Milton of the money supply....

Active membership in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues to drop, registering a dip of about 46,000 members last year to 2.26 million, according to statistics released by PCUSA officials in ...

One of the satisfactions of reading Living by the Word is sometimes having our own interpretations affirmed and amplified by colleagues....

A couple of months ago in the Century, Thomas G. Long discussed temptations faced by anxious preachers who must preach week after week, sometimes for several services each Sunday....

I’m still amazed,” declared Mary Alice Gran, the soft-spoken national director of children’s ministries for the United Methodist Church, based in Nashville....

About 86 years ago the mainline churches did something. Maybe we washed our lucky game underwear. Maybe we traded Babe Ruth....

Bryan Stone’s Evangelism after Christendom is a remarkable book that was about 30 years in the...

Can natural selection of living things, aided by more or less random mutations (genetic tinkering), explain what ap...

So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see w...

The biopic is a film genre that presents itself as history and is received as such by its audience....

Ancient Romans pronounced the C in Caesar as a hard K, so it sounded like “Kaesar,” which is how the Germans got their word for “emperor” (Kaiser...

Glen Hansard, lead singer for the Irish band The Frames, has a long, woebegone face pebbled with a rust-colored beard; his eyes are immense, with the peeled look of billiard balls....

It seems strange to be reading a tough text like Luke 9:51-62 during the gentle days of early summer. Most of our congregations are in relaxed, vacation mode....

The disciples are dense and forgetful. They bumble along after Jesus, barely able to keep up....

This passage has all the elements of a scary story. Jesus and the disciples get into a boat and a horrible storm comes up....

It is instructive and ultimately very encouraging for an American churchperson to get a glimpse of the global Christian enterprise....

The notion of intelligent design in nature is not controversial among Christians....

Silent retreat: Brian Doyle, sometime contributor to the Christian Century, reports that his sister, who lives in a monastery, once went on a summer-long silent retreat. He asked her what her first words were when she broke her silence. She grinned and said “Pass the butter,” and when he complied, she laughed: those actually were her first words after the retreat. He also asked her if it had been hard to remain silent. At first it was, she said, but then it had become a prayer (U.S. Catholic, June).