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To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Trans­formation of World Christianity, by Allan Heaton Anderson....

Najla Said has had every reason to be confused....

Driving in northern Indiana one recent evening, I came to the conclusion that religious broadcasters pretty much own the FM band in this part of the country. One station was playing contemporary Christian music, another gospel music. And three different stations were airing James Dobson’s radio program. Dobson, formerly of Focus on the Family, was touting a new novel he has coauthored, which fictionalizes all the bad things supposedly resulting from a decline in the American birthrate.

New today from the Century: Kathryn Reklis on Orange Is the New Black, Timothy Renick reviews Andrew Bacevich, more.

Recently, Secretary of State John Kerry explained that if he could do it all over again, he would major in “comparative religion.” Were it not for a Supreme Court decision 50 years ago, this might not have even been possible.

Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition, by Gary A. Anderson....

Orange Is the New Black is so refreshing, honest and funny that "prison drama" is hardly the right category.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of freshly minted high school graduates enter college across the United States....

Back in the mid-1990s I wrote a book on sin. Each of us knows sin experientially, of course, but few of us know it comprehensively even in that way because we are parochial even in our sinning....

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Every Wednesday morning, our congregation holds a small Matins service in our small chapel. We pray, we sing, we hear the scriptures. There is a short homily....

Federal programs have ground to a halt, and workers have been sent home. The debt ceiling looms. And it's all somehow related to Obamacare.

New today from the Century: Faith formation and answerless questions, eight things the chaos on Capitol Hill isn't about, more.

The public has a taste for biographies of great people who on closer inspection turn out to be not so great after all....

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I'm on the fence about military action in Syria. So I do what those of us on the fence ought to be doing: I pray.

Our texts du jour include passages from Lamentations and Habakkuk that lament or anticipate the desolation of Jerusalem by the Babylonians. What’s it like when calamity or God’s judgment leaves the land, the houses or the people desolate?

The grandson’s voice was hesitant on the phone....

New today from the Century: New titles in practical theology, Greg Carey reviews Reza Aslan, more.

Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War, by Rita Nakashima Brock and Gabriella Lettini....