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Whose religious freedom is at stake with Texas’s new abortion law?
Some rabbis are claiming that SB 8 violates the obligations of their faith.
Literature in the wild
Nick Ripatrazone invites us into the wilderness with some of his favorite writers.
New Bible translation for Native American readers
It’s a Bible verse familiar to many Christians—and even to many non-Christians, who have seen it on billboards and T-shirts or scrawled across eye black under football players’ helmets....
Police clash with opponents of Serbian church in Montenegro
Metropolitan Joanikije, the new head of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, was inaugurated in the state’s old capital on September 5 amid clashes between police and protesters who oppose co...
Afghanistan’s last Jew leaves after Taliban takeover
The last member of Afghanistan’s Jewish community has left the country....
Vatican won’t say if women can vote in 2023 church meeting
Vatican officials declined to say if women would be able to vote on concrete proposals about the future of the Catholic Church at the end of a two-year consultation of laypeople that begins in Octo...
Twenty years later, ‘In Christ Alone’ still inspires millions to sing
The melody that changed Keith Getty’s life was first scratched out on the back of an electric bill in a humble flat in Northern Ireland.
This isn’t great, he thought at the time....
Influential Episcopal bishop John Shelby Spong dies at 90
John Shelby Spong, an Episcopal bishop and a best-selling author known for his progressive theology and his support of LGBTQ clergy, has died. He was 90....
Dillard University professor Mona Lisa Saloy named poet laureate in Louisiana
Mona Lisa Saloy, an English professor at the historically Black, United Methodist and United Church of Christ affiliated Dillard University, has been named poet laureate for the state of Louisiana....
Stefan Wyszyński and Elżbieta Róża Czacka beatified in Poland
Two revered figures of the Polish Catholic Church were beatified on September 12—a cardinal who led the Polish church’s resistance to communism and a blind nun who devoted her life to helping othe...
Myanmar military releases Buddhist nationalist monk Wirathu from prison
A nationalist Buddhist monk in Myanmar notorious for anti-Muslim remarks was freed from prison on September 6 after charges that he tried to stir up disaffection against the country’s previous civ...
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words scrap and threshold.
God’s nose
When COVID took my sense of smell, I was drawn to the Bible’s description of God’s.
The roots of India’s united churches
How the Church of South India and Church of North India were formed—and how they fare today.
Elle Dowd’s firsthand account of the Ferguson uprising
A memoir of a White moderate’s repentance
Episode 10: Breathing mysticism | A conversation with Angela N. Parker
How do I replenish myself so that I can do what God has called me to do?
Rescuing patriotism from nationalism
Constitutional patriotism, Steven Smith argues, is both ethical and necessary.
Is Brazil’s Universal Church of the Kingdom of God a field hospital or a marketplace?
A look inside the thriving (and sometimes controversial) neo-Pentecostal denomination
The New Testament’s most dangerous book for Jews
Reading and preaching Hebrews without supersessionism