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From baby in a basket to liberating lawgiver, Moses has been all things to all people.

We thought her only stern and rigorous and dry—until one afternoon in October.

Some riots protest injustice. Others perpetuate it.

I keep thinking that being effective means big things like starting new organizations. But it's also about relationships.

Susan Faludi’s memoir reveals the deep complexity of her father’s many identities.

Nations as well as individuals need to look in the moral mirror in order to stop deceiving ourselves.

I inspected the donkey's teeth, though I wasn’t totally sure how this was going to help me.

Putting the truth out there about my tremor has made free in unexpected ways.

I relate to physical sickness more easily than mental illness. So does our culture.

The Century asked professors, writers, and policy makers to tell us about a book they would want to hand to their elected officials to read.

Theologies of entitlement, enslaving, and extinguishing indigenous communities have shaped policy since the 15th century.

Sometimes social media and texting aren't appropriate when someone's grieving. Sometimes they are.

Even in the secular imagination, dying has become a vocation.

Sex is complicated. So is Christian reflection on it.

As we make laws and try to adjudicate justice, we often lose sight of the human faces affected.

Matthew Skinner, Philip Jenkins, Grant Wacker, and Mary Clark Moschella recommend the best new books in their fields.

Maybe the parable of the persistent widow isn't about God. Maybe it's about us.

There’s a place in society for prophetic denunciation. There’s also a place for restraint.