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A tall stack of books on the floor of my bedroom greets me each morning. Its very presence is exhausting.

One of the gifts of the lectionary is that a biblical text wears different vestments depending on when it shows up for Christian worship.

Evidently we’ve been reaching out to our neighbors without meaning to do so. It’s the latest church trend—unintentional evangelism. Every Thursday, our choir rehearses in our fellowship hall, a large and acoustically great space on the second floor of the education wing.

Why does the church participate in modern-day lynching, or at most turn a blind eye, rather than protesting as our faith would dictate?

In Germany, some politicians see taxing Muslims as a strategy to keep them from becoming radicalized. Some Mus­lim leaders think it might be a good idea, too....

Japanese Buddhist adherence is in sharp decline. At every stage of this story, the analogies to Western Catholics are obvious.

A United Methodist church compound in the Philippines gave sanctuary to 4,000 farmers and indigenous people for more than a week after a recent protest for food relief turned deadly....

Manas Buthelezi, a Lutheran bishop in South Africa and one of the great African theologians of the 20th century, died April 20 at age 81....

The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives (under 1,000 words) on the topic enemy.

On May 17, 1968, nine Roman Catholic activists broke into a draft board office in Catonsville, Maryland, transferring 378 files to the parking lot to be incinerated with home-made napalm. As the fire burned, the “Catonsville Nine” prayed for peace. They were arrested, tried and sentenced to prison, but four of them, including two priests—Daniel and Philip Berrigan—went underground, eluding capture for a number of months, occasionally surfacing to speak at antiwar rallies. At one of these public appearances, following a dramatic tableau of the Last Supper with giant puppets, Dan Berrigan made his escape inside one of the apostles.

President George W. Bush let innumerable attacks on his decisions, intelligence and character roll off his back while he was in office. But facing the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan took a heavy emotional toll on his presidency.

Lincoln understood that the dream of well-being, if not radically democratized, would for some people only be a nightmare.

Those who heard the disciples preach on Pentecost comprehended the message in their own language. But that was only the beginning.

Roughly 94 percent of black voters now vote for a candidate from the Democratic Party. This high number at the national level may be due in part to President Obama’s racial identity. In 2008 Obama surpassed even the solidification of black votes for Lyndon Baines Johnson that occurred in 1964. Has the United States moved closer to a post-racial society? 

My computer science husband sent me this link recently: “I had so many advantages, and I barely made it”: Pinterest engineer on Silicon Valley sexism. How can an article be so unsurprising, yet so wholly dispiriting at the same time?

Donald Trump pretty much clinched the Republican nomination last night, frustrating Religious Right architects....

We grieve always alone while at the same time needing community. Surely there is a role for the church in this paradox.

The nation’s oldest graduate school of theology plans to relocate from Newton Centre, Massachusetts, to New Haven, Con­necticut, where a remnant of the faculty will teach on the campus of Yale Divi...

Religious freedom remains under “serious and sustained assault” around the globe, according to the recently released annual report of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom....

When we are overwhelmed by our daily struggles, when we get weary because of the dehumanization that results from hatred and greed, Proverbs 8 and Psalm 8 remind us how God conceives of us as human beings crowned with glory and honor.