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Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics plate and dawn.
The kinds of stories Toni Morrison told
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
(De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek
Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?
October 20, Ordinary 29C (Luke 18:1-8)
Injustice comes with so many alibis and aliases.
Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol
The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.
Can we survive the incalculable damage of climate change?
David Wallace-Wells charts a path for life in the wake of global warming.
The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds
Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.
When our past sins come up
There's no perfect way to atone, but humility is a good start.
Money in our hearts (Luke 16:1-13; Amos 8:4-7)
Jesus has a zeal against the human willingness to turn wealth into an idol.
United Methodist pastor will face church trial for being a "self-avowed practicing homosexual."
United Methodist pastor Anna Blaedel will face a church trial for “practices declared by the United Methodist Church to be incompatible with Christian teachings, including . . ....
Alison Cheek, one of the first female Episcopal priests, dies at 92
Alison Cheek, one of the first female priests in the Episcopal Church and the first to publicly celebrate the Eucharist, died on September 1 at her home in Brevard, North Carolina, according to fri...
After report on Falwell, Liberty University students organize campus protest
In the wake of reports alleging objectionable rhetoric and conduct by Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., about 200 students at the evangelical Christian school gathered at a protest on...
New study finds aging populations might counteract secularization
Is there an inexorable trend toward secularization in the West because younger generations are less likely to affiliate with organized religion?...
Episcopal seminary that benefited from slavery creates reparations fund
Virginia Theological Seminary took what appears to be an unprecedented step by announcing that it has set aside $1.7 million for a slavery reparations fund—something considered but not yet enacted ...
Is Hinn renouncing prosperity gospel?
Prominent televangelist Benny Hinn has captured headlines recently for seemingly renouncing the prosperity gospel on which he built his ministry....
Tasting salvation during a fellowship meal at a maximum security prison
None of us wants it to end, because we know we'll never see each other again.