Dawn Araujo-Hawkins
Lil Nas X music video revives 'satanic panic'
Just before Easter, rapper Lil Nas X revived a bit of the “satanic panic” of the 1980s with the release of the music video for his song “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” which is rife with satani...
Martina Kopeckà named goodwill ambassador for Czech Republic
Martina Viktorie Kopecká, a 34-year-old priest in the Czechoslovak Hussite Church, has been named a goodwill ambassador by the Czech Republic’s minister of foreign affairs.
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Presbyterian Historial Society begins work on Katie Geneva Cannon digitial archive
The Presbyterian Historical Society has embarked on a collaborative effort to create a digital archive of more than 1,600 pages of womanist theologian Katie Geneva Cannon’s personal records.
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Marsha Scipio tapped to lead Baptist World Aid
Marsha Scipio has been named director of Baptist World Aid, the community development arm of the Baptist World Alliance.
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Candace M. Lewis is first woman to lead Gammon Theological Seminary
Candace M. Lewis has been named president-dean of Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta, the first woman to serve in that role in the school’s 138-year history.
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Innovative Christian publisher Melvin E. Banks dies at 86
Melvin E. Banks, founder of Urban Ministries, Inc., died on February 13. He was 86.
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G. Sujin Pak named dean of Boston University's School of Theology
G. Sujin Pak has been named dean of Boston University’s School of Theology....
Renowned ethicist James M. Gustafson dies at 95
Christian ethicist James M. Gustafson died on January 15 at the age of 95.
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Hymnist Patrick Matsikenyiri dies at 83
Patrick Matsikenyiri, a United Methodist hymn writer and teacher, died on January 15 from complications related to COVID-19. He was 83.
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World's first nuclear weapons ban goes into effect
The United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons went into effect on January 22, making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time.
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Expedited border wall construction jeopardizes church, environment
In its final weeks, the Trump administration rushed efforts to build wall structures along the US-Mexico border—a project the Biden administration is expected to cancel....
Why some young Black Christians are practicing hoodoo
The ancestral religious practices of the African diaspora were forced underground by the White church.
Head of Serbian Orthodox Church dies of COVID-19
Patriarch Irinej, head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, died of COVID-19 on November 20 at the age of 90....
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
The making of the QAnon conspiracy cult
Over the past year, awareness of the far-right collection of baseless conspiracy theories known as QAnon has grown dramatically in the United States....
Influential book publisher William Eerdmans Jr. dies at 97
William Eerdmans Jr., who led the independent religious publishing house Wm. B. Eerdmans for more than 50 years, died on November 13 at age 97.
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Religious diversity in the election
On November 3, the United States elected its first Catholic president in 60 years, but that wasn’t the only important religion angle of the 2020 election.
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Darrell Goodwin to be first director of new United Church of Christ conference
Darrell Goodwin, a United Church of Christ pastor, was elected as the first executive minister of the denomination’s new Southern New England Conference by an overwhelming margin on September 26....
Majority of White Christians see no pattern in killings
Two days before Rusten Sheskey, a White police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, fired seven shots into the back of Jacob Blake, a Black man, at close range while three of Blake’s young children watch...
Open media advocate William Fore dies at 92
Christian Century contributor and open media advocate William Fore died July 30 at the age of 92.
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