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Arizona candidate's claim to be military chaplain investigated
“My name is Alex Stovall. I am Republican. I am 26....
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words scrap and threshold.
In Mediterranean Europe, St. Benedict the Moor is back
The Afropean saint is reemerging amid a swelling African diaspora.
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
On her deathbed, St. Clare of Assisi blessed God
Her radical final words confounded me for years.
August 15, Ordinary 20B (1 Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14)
Solomon has everything—and still, he seeks transformation.
How I changed my mind about same-sex marriage
It began when I realized the church has always had a process for changing its mind.
A Palestinian evangelical’s supersessionism
Munther Isaac’s critique of the Israeli government is perfectly fair. But why does he also need to critique Judaism?
Coming back together (16B) (Mark 6:30-34, 53-56)
We may all be in a phase of reorientation for a while.
Birthing you is an act of radical hope
Accepting the call to Black motherhood without averting my eyes from the spectacle of Black death
Episode 9: Historian Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
A conversation with historian Kristin Du Mez about motherhood and writing, Christian Nationalism, masculinity and patriarchy in evangelicalism, and more
Has the pandemic prepared us for pilgrimages?
We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place, and embodiment.
How do parents pass along their faith to children?
Christian Smith and Amy Adamczyk’s sociological study offers some clues.
My first post-pandemic flight was a bumpy ride
I murmured my prayers, counted my breaths, and got through it.
The Pope Francis of India?
Bishop Philipose Mar Chrysostom worked with unlikely partners—including communist leaders in Kerala—to bring about social change.
August 8, Ordinary 19B (2 Samuel 18:5–9, 15, 31–33)
David, Absalom, and the dangers of “hanging between heaven and earth”
Ending food insecurity will take more than community fridges
It’s beautiful when people come together to protect their hungry neighbors. It’s appalling that they have to.
The good news in John Green’s reviews of Diet Dr Pepper and sunsets
He says they’re memoirs, but I’m onto him. The Anthropocene Reviewed is more like a collection of sermons.