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Moral church, amoral society
Maybe Christian Realism is the best option we have today.
Episode 57: Love and Basketball
In anticipation of March Madness, Matt and Adam sit down with Aisha Brooks Lytle to talk about ministry, romance, and Love and Basketball.
Six-year prison sentence for Jehovah’s Witness in Russia sparks outcry
Dozens of Jehovah’s Witnesses have been charged with participating in or organizing the group’s activities since since the Supreme Court outlawed the group two years ago.
Dazzling essays from flyover country
There are two conditions Meghan O'Gieblyn can't escape: Christianity and Midwesternness.
Sin is about not knowing who we are
Mystics understand what moralists do not: God pulls us like a magnet to our essence.
United Methodist assembly meets to make a decision on sexuality and the church
There are multiple options on the table at the special meeting of the top legislative body for the 12.6-million-member global denomination.
Outline of a service in solidarity with those affected by suicide
Read the main article about the development of this service.
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A liturgy for people affected by suicide
One person told me, “It’s the first time I’ve been in a church for 30 years, since that day.”
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics dirt and lapse.
In aftermath of Nairobi attack, Kenyans seek to prevent harassment of Somalis and Muslims
Community leaders have worked to counter the idea that Muslims are collectively to blame for attacks by al-Shabaab militants.
Inclined toward God at the end of life
My friend adjusted his hospital bed. Then he said his final words.
Leveled out (Luke 6:17-26)
Jesus comes to a level place to bring the kingdom of God to all those who are gathered.
Christian humanism in a technocratic world
Alan Jacobs's biography of T.S. Eliot, Simone Weil, W.H. Auden, Jacques Maritain, and C.S. Lewis
Southern Baptist leaders address reports showing decades of sexual abuse
“It’s time for pervasive change,” said SBC president J. D. Greear.
Talking about religious decline with a Buddhist priest
The local clergy conversation turned to nostalgia about our so-called Christian past. I asked the Buddhist priest next to me what he thought.
Yechiel Eckstein, rabbi who befriended evangelicals, dies at age 67
Through the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews that Eckstein founded, evangelicals have contributed more than $1 billion to Jewish causes.
Why Americans have a spiritual need for KonMari
Marie Kondo works to restore right relationships between humans and objects.
Rena Weller Karefa-Smart, international ecumenical leader, dies at age 97
She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Divinity School, to receive a doctorate in theology from Harvard Divinity School, and to receive tenure at Howard Divinity School.