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Religious liberty executive order draws mixed reviews
In a Rose Garden ceremony at the White House on the National Day of Prayer, President Trump signed a highly anticipated executive order on religious liberty, basking in the praise of religious lead...
Clash over Bear Ears land tests years of progress on Native American spirituality
(The Christian Science Monitor) Davis Filfred wishes President Trump would take a page from General “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf’s pl...
Pope visits Egypt and joins imams, Coptic church in calling for rejection of violence
Pope Francis used the political capital he has built up with the Islamic world to issue a powerful condemnation of religion-inspired violence, calling on Muslim leaders to unite against terrorist a...
Questions in Genesis
A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
The Spirit's work, denied after the fact
United Methodists have been down this road before. What's different this time is that Karen Oliveto is already a bishop.
Is your church physically welcoming?
You may have signs everywhere proclaiming inclusion of all. But the building itself can exclude some.
The Baptist exception
Christians in the Global South now dominate every major Protestant tradition—except one.
Macy Halford’s two worlds
A New Yorker staffer investigates the evangelical book that will not let her go.
Slaying the monsters
Theological issues might be “settled” for us, but there is a big world out there that needs to hear our voices.
United Methodist court rules against consecrating gay and lesbian bishops
At the end of the day, Karen Oliveto remains a bishop even after the United Methodist Church’s top court ruled that consecrating a gay bishop violates church law....
A president walks into a Buddhist purgatory
The new George Saunders novel turns a crazy idea into a deeply moving story.
Feasting with favorite writers
The Century asked writers and teachers, Which three authors—living or dead—would you invite over for dinner?
Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor help Marcel Proust edit his long sentences
Who I'd invite to my writers' dinner party
Baylor University appoints first woman president
Linda A. Livingstone has been named president of Baylor University, beginning June 1. She will be the first woman to to head the Christian institution in Waco, Texas, founded by Baptists....
Supreme Court may lean toward Lutheran school in public funds dispute
In a case with implications for more than 30 states that prohibit using public funds for religious purposes, a majority of Supreme Court justices appeared aligned against Missouri’s refusal to incl...
U.S. commission: Russia among worst violators of religious freedom
The State Department should add Russia to its list of the worst violators of religious freedom, a U.S. commission declared in its annual report....