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Former Century editor James McKendree Wall dies at 92
James McKendree Wall, who served as editor and publisher of the Christian Century from 1972 to 1999, died March 22 at the age of 92....
Emily Awino Onyango becomes first female Anglican bishop in East, Central Africa
The second woman to be ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Kenya, Emily Awino Onyango, has been appointed to serve as assistant bishop in the Diocese of Bondo....
Lil Nas X music video revives 'satanic panic'
Just before Easter, rapper Lil Nas X revived a bit of the “satanic panic” of the 1980s with the release of the music video for his song “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” which is rife with satani...
Jellyfish at prayer
Is V. velella a colony or an individual? When does sharedness dissolve into oneness?
Hip-hop artists Sho Baraka and Propaganda flip the script
Stanley Hauerwas says good theological writing makes the familiar strange.
Do we still need institutions?
Yes, says Yuval Levin. But only if they serve a formative function.
A civil rights pilgrimage through the eyes of Congolese refugee teenagers
We began to understand why James Baldwin called US history “more beautiful and more terrible than anyone has ever said about it.”
May 9, Easter 6B (John 15:9–17)
What would the insurance-mandated boundary trainings that I’ve attended make of Jesus’ intimacy with his disciples?
COVID and the faithful risks pastors have taken
This is a high-stakes time. Some churches need to take more creative risks than ever before.
Because of Paul Crow, I’m still a pastor
The ecumenical leader who talked me out of burning my ordination certificate
Three neo-Westerns that reimagine the genre
First Cow, Bacurau, and Nomadland reveal the stark racism of classic American Westerns.
Episode 4: Becoming a truth teller | A conversation with Sophfronia Scott
In the private journals of contemplative thinker Thomas Merton, Sophronia Scott found guidance for how to live in these fraught times.
It’s time to end our national love affair with guns
Breaking America’s fetish for lethal weapons
Donna Haskins defeats the devil
Onaje X. O. Woodbine’s book about a Black woman’s life is a model of ethnographic work that centers the voice of its subject.
May 2, Easter 5B (John 15:1–8)
The vine branch doesn’t put “make grapes” on its to-do list. It just makes them.