Latest Articles

One of the most disquieting aspects of our secularized society is the way some of faith's most treasured traditions have become devalued, trivialized and usurped.

I lived my childhood against the stained wallpaper of the Vietnam War. My children have lived theirs against the gnawing realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it's...

Thanks for reading and commenting on my blog. Here are the ten posts people read the most this year.

Paul Farmer has a keen sense of the tendency to portray Haitians as helpless victims. This is well evident in his poignant chronicle of the year that began with the January 2010 earthquake.

Each week my church includes a prayer for the families of American soldiers who have died. As the names are read, I try to hold them in prayer. But I have wrestled with these prayers.

Every year, people gather in my hometown for an almost unthinkable challenge. During the Leadville Trail 100, athletes run 100 miles. The race is metaphorically fascinating.

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

Like Crazy is a love story about an American boy (Anton Yelchin) and an English girl (Felicity Jones) who meet in their final year of college in Los Angeles, fall in love and opt to spend the summer together in the States before she returns to London.

In Bosnia, I was reminded that the God who shows up at communion is a God who brazenly seeks us out of the crowd.

At age 29 I cried out to an empty universe in the first authentic prayer of my life: "God, if you are, I need help!" The help came in ways I couldn't imagine.

Here's a separate top-ten list of just our paid content--i.e., the most popular articles of the year that were read online only by Century subscribers.

When we want to build intergenerational congregations, what do we do to signal to a new generation that they're not welcome? What are those unconscious blocks that tell them they're not welcome?

Nigel Warburton is a senior lecturer for Britain's Open University, a service originated by the BBC to provide education via television to adults who had not gone on to higher education. A Little History of Philosophy is focused on that audience and on anyone else who knows little about philosophy except that it is, as Warburton says, "impenetrable and obscure."

Years ago during the Christmas season, I was in the office of the inner-city congregation I served when the intercom buzzed. "There is a young man here who wants to see you," said the secretary....

"If the bishop admits to knowing that I was gay, then she gets in trouble. The system is set up so that truth will not be told."

Birth is a messy, painful affair, fraught with risk and danger. Yet Jesus was born.

I have an overwhelming need to be useful. I have this longing to do something with my life. To make these short days mean something. To live into the fullness of God’s intent for me.

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

For many early Chris­tians, only at the moment of Jesus' baptism was he suddenly overwhelmed by the power of divinity.

Newt Gingrich has suggested that undocumented immigrants who are family-loving, hardworking, tax-paying, churchgoing and deeply rooted should stay here. This is pretty much the typical immigrant.