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Gary Dorrien wins award for book on black Social Gospel
Gary Dorrien, professor of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, won the 2017 Grawemeyer Award in religion for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B....
Cristo Perez offers insights on indigenous spirituality and the harm of landmines in Colombia
Cristo Perez wishes he had listened to the bird. If he had heeded its warning, he might not have stepped on a land mine that day three years ago....
Political slogans and the nature of God
When an anthropologist wants to understand a culture, he or she studies its gods.
Is the holy innocents story about the innocents? (Matthew 2:13–23)
"What an awful story," she said. "Why would that story be in the Bible?"
The joy of things and the trap of excess
An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?
Our 16 most-read blog posts of 2016
Here are this year's most popular bloggers and posts from our site. Thanks for reading.
No place to lay their heads
Two compelling novels reveal the horrors of forced displacement.
The ones that got away
As CC books editor, I get to peruse a lot of books. Too bad I can’t review them all.
Fascism can't be stopped by fact-checking
Confronting Trump's political project
Would Jesus be deported from the United States?
The larger context to this question might actually surprise you.
One of the Lord's witnesses (John 1:1–14)
When this woman heard what she thought to be true about the movement of God among us, she testified.
Award-winning TV series on religion and ethics to air final show
The television series Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly will end its run of 20 years on PBS on February 24....
Holy crumbs for a holy world
As the children make their way out the door, trails of leftover communion bread go with them.
Muslim clerics disappearing near Kenya-Somalia border
As Kenyan coastal region sheikhs, imams, and preachers vanish in alleged killings and forced disappearances, their wives are demanding answers....
The news that matters
While the Romans were broadcasting fake news about the emperor as savior, God was at work elsewhere.
