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There is a new phenomenon in the heartland. As far as I know, it is little observed and has not yet been named. I will call it rural cosmopolitanism....

How should Christians understand—and what should they learn from—the worst economic downturn since the Depression? Does the crisis raise fundamental moral or theological questions about our economic system? Four scholars offer their reflections in this issue of the Century: Dennis P. McCann, Jon P. Gunnemann, Deirdre McCloskey and D. Stephen Long.

His black-dyed hair, shaven at the base, was pulled up into a bun pierced by thin black sticks....

What is manna? Is it a Hebrew pun on mah hu, or as Everett Fox suggests, “Whaddayacallit”? Is it mountains of sweet insect excrement, as proposed by some scholars, or the stuff of legend?

For decades, my students have failed to grasp the resurrection of the body as an article of faith.

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In the late 1980s, while I was writing Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory, someone named Richard Yao was all the ...

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Before September 2001, many Americans may have believed that Islam...

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console.” Simone Weil might have granted that St....

Sufi teacher Jamal Rahman has teamed up again with two friends, J...

Back before pop diva Lisa Loeb became a household name, she and Elizabeth Mitchell performed together at Brown University....

The sweet and thrilling Pixar animated feature Up is a paean to the possibilities that remain in a life shadowed by loss and disappointment....

In last week’s gospel reading and this one, a picture of a beleaguered Jesus emerges: he can’...

Jesus and a little boy vs. the voices of common sense

"I'm aware that a tree-hugging Brown student isn't supposed to be able to talk to a Bible-thumping Liberty student," writes Kevin Roose. "But...

President Obama’s plan to give all Americans the option of a government-run health insurance plan got a frigid reception in June from the American Medical Association, the nation’s leading lobbying...

On May 13, I lingered in Upper Senate Park, just north of the U.S. Capitol, hearing New Orleans jazz coming from down Constitution Avenue....

Longtime advocates of single-payer insurance like me are thrilled, anxious and deflated simultaneously by the state of the debate on health-care reform. The debate that we wanted has finally come, and it is coming with a legislative rush, but the plan that we wanted is being excluded from consideration. Should we hold out for the real thing, or get behind the best politically possible thing? I am for doing both: Standing up for single-payer without holding out for it exclusively; supporting a public option without denying its limitations; and hoping that a good public plan will lead eventually to real national health insurance.

Harsh things happen in the world with numbing frequency. So when somebody does something kind and thoughtful, we really ought to celebrate it....