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Title 42’s disastrous—and illegal—legacy at the southern border
The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.
Climate change requires adaptive faith
Debra Rienstra urges Christians to create spaces of transition and new growth wherever we are.
White supremacy’s wee little men
Zaccheus doesn't mind the indignity of scrambling up a tree, as long as he’s on top.
July 10, 15C (Amos 7:7-17)
The prophets God sends among us are often vilified, distorted, and silenced.
The Palestinian refugee camp where journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered
Why do these camps still exist? Who is responsible for keeping them safe?
Joel Agee’s novel of childhood wonder and terror
Fantastical things surround six-year-olds everywhere.
Interfaith leaders join protest outside NRA meeting
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered under the scorching Texas sun on May 27 to protest outside the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, just days after 21 people died in a school shooting in...
Episcopal Church presses gun manufacturer to study lethality
The Episcopal Church on June 1 was part of a successful push by shareholders of gun manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co....
How the Southern Baptist report almost didn’t happen
For three minutes last summer, a call to investigate how Southern Baptist leaders have dealt with sexual abuse was dead in the water....
AME Church alleges former retirement services exec embezzled tens of millions
The African Methodist Episcopal Church has sued a former executive who oversaw its pension plan’s investment portfolio, charging that he and others embezzled money and defrauded AME clergy and chur...
MC USA repeals ‘Membership Guidelines,’ passes LGBTQ-affirming resolution
At a special assembly held May 27–30 in Kansas City, Missouri, delegates from the nation’s largest Mennonite denomination shifted Mennonite Church USA’s stance toward LGBTQ people in an affirming d...
Mildred “Bonnie” Hines, first woman AME Zion bishop, dies at 67
Bishop Mildred “Bonnie” Hines, the first female bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, has died at age 67....
Ecumenical leader Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima dies
Metropolitan Gennadios of Sassima, a leader of the Greek Orthodox Church in Turkey, a noted scholar, and a popular ecumenist, died June 1....
Brett Opalinski to lead Methodist studies at Candler School of Theology
Brett Opalinski has been selected as the next dean of Methodist studies at the Candler School of Theology....
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words Disguise and Hinge.
On the holiness of casseroles and spreadsheets
When our church offered Rosa sanctuary, our ordinary habits became a politics of hospitality.
Sitting with uncertainty (John 16:12-15)
We are often told that “negative” emotions are to be ejected, tossed aside, and forgotten as quickly as possible.
This is my broken body
When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.
Joy Harjo gives words to the poet warriors who were her ancestors
The Indigenous writer’s new memoir understands memory as counsel and ritual as the potency of love.