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Week after week, day after day, Christians pray, “Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.” But the kingdom doesn’t come....

Why does Elijah try to spare Elisha? Does he simply prefer to die alone?

Could Peter Leithart be on to something when he calls 2 Kings 5 “the richest Old Testament story of baptism,” one that “anticipates Christian baptism”?...

In January I went to New Orleans with the Protestant Cooperative Ministry of Cornell University to work on a Habitat for Humanity project. My wife, Jeanene, and I drove from San Antonio through Houston and on to New Orleans. As it turned out, our journey through Houston helped us to understand the work we were about to do. I grew up on the west side of Houston, 15 miles out Interstate 10, near Katy, Texas. Our exit had nothing more than a Shell station, a small grocery store and a few shops. There wasn’t much between Katy and Houston either, mostly open country and a few familiar roads. In the late '70s I drove into Houston regularly to visit friends and sack groceries in a little store near Kirkwood Street.

Christians have never embraced blood sacrifice. We have not offered chickens or slain goats, let alone sacrificed our firstborn children to God....

In the last few months, virtually every mainstream periodical in the United States that pays attention to serious fiction has carried a prominent review of Marilynne Robinso...

My university had long used students’ Social Security numbers as a means of identification on class...

Before considering the specific content of this book, it is useful to recognize the importance of its having ...

So many American ventures into the Middle East go awry because policy makers know so little about the region....

A marvelous new film by the French director Laurent Cantet sits on the cusp between fiction and documentary....

Years ago I read an article in Interpretation that forever changed my understanding of this gospel passage. The writer focused on...

Paul writes elsewhere that we are each given different gifts for ministry. Here he says that he, at least, does it all.

Every other week, on Thursday afternoon, several editors at the Century gather around a cluster of filing cabinets....

Apart from Billy Graham, who is sidelined by age, the most influential evangelical Christian in the U.S. these days is probably author and pastor Rick Warren....

Older and wiser: Henry Alford, 46, has written a book about old age based on conversations with more than 100 people over 70 (How to Live). Althea Washington, a retired school teacher, lost her husband and house in Hurricane Katrina and now lives in a small apartment close to train tracks. When asked how she's coping, she responded: "Can you hear that train? As long as it stays on its tracks, I'll stay on mine" (USA Today, December 30).

A longtime official of evangelical organizations is the new president of the American Bible Society. R....