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This past summer at our family home in Croatia, I was immersed in George Weigel’s long biography of the late John Paul II, Witness to Hope....

Rising tides: Environmentalist (and Century editor at large) Bill McKibben reports that according to one prediction up to 150 million people worldwide could become “environmental refugees” by the year 2050 because of rising waters. There is evidence “that tropical storms are lasting half again as long, and spinning winds 50 percent more powerful, than just a few decades ago. The only plausible cause: the ever-warmer tropical seas on which these storms thrive” (Newsday, Sept. 14).To our readers: When you access amazon.com from the Century's Web site, the Century earns a percentage of each sale. Thank you!

On the lecture circuit I once met a man who was one of the hierarchs in the advertising division of the New Yorker....

For the second time in ten months our attention has been commanded by a natural catastrophe—there was the tsunami this past December in Southeast Asia and now Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Co...

Is leadership, specifically pastoral leadership, a spiritual practice?...

I was emphasizing to parents of confirmands that the young people should be with their families in worship as part of their preparation for membership. “I’m afraid we don’t have time for worship,” one mother told me after the meeting. Her words were soothing and gentle, yet they sounded condescending, as if she were explaining something to a not-very-bright child. “We’ve committed to soccer and cheerleading for my youngest on Sunday mornings. We have a full plate."

There have always been those who reject the gifts they’re offered.

The writers of great hymns were deeply aware of the relationship between God and the forces of nature....

Commentators in the media have often invoked the term biblical to describe the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, which has gone beyond our imagination and our explanatory categories. The term has not been used with any precision—it seems to mean simply vast or awe-inspiring.What would it mean to view the catastrophe in genuinely biblical terms? Four biblical themes inform my own pondering.

Is there a clergy crisis in the United States?...

December’s Indian Ocean tsunami forced a haunting question to emerge anew: how could an omnipotent God permit such evil?...

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Denys Turner and Oliver Davies previously collaborated on Silence and...