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At the border, “law and order” looks a lot like chaos
Trump’s new policies are creating confusion and misery.
February 26, Ash Wednesday (Matthew 6:1–6, 16–21)
Every year, we repeat this dusty choreography.
What Meghan and Harry can and can’t escape
At the heart of life is the mess of being stuck with other people.
Latino Christians grapple with complicated identity
Allen Hernandez wears his Christian faith and his indigenous Maya roots on his sleeves, literally....
Elizabeth Warren launches interfaith initiative, hopes to appeal to faith communities
Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has announced an interfaith advisory council and forthcoming endorsements from more than 100 religious leaders from across the country....
Comedians take on Christian film industry in film festival debut
It has all the ingredients of a faith-based blockbuster: an astronaut who finds God after she’s pushed to her limits. It also has space monsters....
Michigan church shares innovative plan for low-cost solar panels
In 2017, after installing solar panels in their home, Fred and Nancy Elmore began thinking about how their church—Keswick United Methodist in Suttons Bay, Michigan—could do the same....
New Orleans Saints fight to shield emails tied to Catholic sex abuse crisis
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic a...
Gwen Ifill honored at historic AME church
In the historic black church where she worshiped, the late journalist Gwen Ifill was remembered with a new Black Heritage stamp in a ceremony featuring dignitaries of the church, politics, and jour...
Herbert Chilstrom, ELCA's first presiding bishop, dies at 88
Herbert Chilstrom, the first presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, died on January 19 at the age of 88....
Nigerian pastor Lawan Andimi executed by terrorist group
Lawan Andimi, the Nigerian Church of the Brethren pastor whose hostage video made waves on the internet last month, was executed on January 20, according to conflict and terrorism reporter Ahmad S...
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics movement and scar.
When we lose our saltiness (Matthew 5:13-20)
We can lose that which feels most dear and essential to us: our health, a job, a relationship.
Is there a way beyond hyperpartisanship?
“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”
When we advertise our righteousness, it becomes self-righteousness
What we can learn from the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector
In the beginning, God created difference
Theodore Hiebert’s deft reading elicits a fresh awareness of the legitimacy of the other in Genesis.
Why Andover Newton requires seminarians to take a course from the Yale School of Management
Congregational ministry requires business skills.
February 23, Transfiguration A (Matthew 17:1–9)
God’s presence transfigures here, now, in the familiar.
Daniel Ortega’s slide into corruption and authoritarianism
Nicaragua’s liberator has become its dictator.