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When we work with others or with ourselves, we cannot let the diagnosis define us, as humans. We need to resist the temptation to identify one another by our sickness or defects--even though the act gives us a certain power over one another. Looking beyond the label to the context forces us to think theologically about people. 

Before the Sudanese civil war, Dinka song was mostly nonreligious. The mass conversion of the people brought with it an explosion of Christian song.

At some point I picked up the idea that wiser Christians ask fewer questions. That somehow they pick up “the answers” somewhere along the way. More mature Christians could always find The Answer in the Bible, no matter how remote the question might be. And, speaking of questions, that’s one thing real Christians wouldn’t have. Or at least, I wouldn’t know it if they did.

I'm delighted that Malcolm Gladwell has rediscovered his Christian faith. But I worry that David and Goliath is like the Bob Dylan album Saved.

There's a growing consensus that we should stop treating people who sell sex as criminals. But that's about where the consensus ends.

Here are this year's most-read posts from Then & Now, a weekly blog feature by historians of religion.

Here are the Century's most-read blog posts of the year. Thanks for reading.

“You have to grow tougher skin, Carol,” my colleague told me when I invited him to lunch and asked for his advice on a church matter. I inhaled deeply. That was the same response I heard repeatedly for the first ten years of my pastorate. Whenever I got frustrated, well-meaning friends and colleagues would tell me that I needed to miraculously grow some sort of Teflon epidermis. 

After two years, I visited my ailing friend. Eventually, he asked for the Eucharist—and suddenly every word mattered.

Here are this year's most popular bloggers and posts from the CCblogs network.

Thanks for reading my blog. Here are the 13 posts people read the most this year.

If positive thinking leaves you cold, Oliver Burkeman's The Antidote will be just what the title promises.