Latest Articles
I wonder (Matthew 3:13-17)
Do baptizer and baptized constitute a hierarchy? How was Jesus’ baptism fulfilling all righteousness?
The uncomfortable truth about Hillcrest
How missionary work can create the conditions for child abuse to thrive unchecked
Our 10 most-read articles of 2022
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
Our 10 most-read articles of 2022
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
Lilly Endowment to award $75 million to help pastors preach better
Valerie Bridgeman knows good preaching. Her dad was a pastor, and for 45 years now, she too has been behind the pulpit....
Reading the Bible with Love Sechrest
In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
Open Doors USA leaves international group, relaunches as Global Christian Relief
Open Doors USA, the US-based arm of the global Christian persecution watchdog, has parted ways with Open Doors International a...
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
New Congress has much higher percentage of Christians than US public
The religious makeup of the new Congress bucks the trends seen in American religious life, a new...
Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers?
They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.
The Magi’s interfaith encounter (Matthew 2:1-12)
And six stars they offer for our own
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
January 8, Baptism of the Lord A (Matthew 3:13-17)
Even Jesus is unable to escape the consequences of sin, becoming a victim of human violence.
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who will be remembered for being the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to resign in 600 year...
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
Matthew writes a sequel (Matthew 2:13-23)
For which he needs to invent some prophecy
January 6, Epiphany of the Lord A (Matthew 2:1-12)
It must have been a strange sight: grown adults, prostrate before a toddler.