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Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
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Louisiana’s habitual offender law is cruel and unjust
Just because something is legal doesn’t make it morally right.
The shape of liturgy when everything is changing
Even stones are constantly being transformed.
Can offensive monuments from the past help hold us accountable today?
Perhaps the names once chosen for honor can now spark meaningful conversation.
Christian Cooper’s compassion toward Amy Cooper is rooted in his conscience
Good conscience isn’t forged in the heat of the moment. It acquires its shape over time.
Why the Washington, DC, football team needed to change its name
This victory won’t amount to much if Americans don’t understand why racist team names are a problem.
What’s behind dehumanization?
A book about the psychology and politics of doing terrible things to one another
Is the destruction of monuments a rewriting of history?
Holding in tension our achievements and failures as a nation
Talking to white kids about what whiteness means
Three children’s books to help start the conversation
Why are so many white Christians suddenly standing up for racial justice?
It might help that our pews aren’t available to sit in and pray.
The coronavirus lockdown was doomed before the mass protests began
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
James Baldwin reminds us not to be surprised by this
Facing the “intolerable trouble” of antiblack violence
Caught up in God
Early on, I got caught up in the logic of the Spirit—and in the steady beat of black life.
Ahmaud Arbery’s lynching begs America to respond
What would it take to stop seeing neighbors as intruders and threats?
The coronavirus pandemic’s unequal burden on African Americans
A plague is being visited on all of us, but not evenly.
How mainline Protestants got involved in urban renewal
Mark Wild complicates the conventional account of postwar white flight.
An anthropologist explores the dangers of being pregnant while black
Using case studies, Dána-Ain Davis shows how medical racism hurts black women.
by Justin List
A precise, devastating portrayal of white wokeness
Kiley Reid’s novel about race, class, and good intentions that miss the point
by Rachel Pyle