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David Heim

David Heim is interim pastor at Messiah Lutheran Church in Park Ridge, Illinois.

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Luke Timothy Johnson’s scholarly life

The prolific biblical scholar offers an engaging account of his career—and of the spiritual journey that helped shape it.
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Christians have struggled to understand Judaism on its own terms

John Phelan’s book helps us unlearn what we thought we knew.
Interviews

Is there a way beyond hyperpartisanship?

“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”
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Books we’re giving

A sneak peek at the CC staff’s Christmas gift list
Interviews

Editing the Christian Century through decades of cultural change

“It's the nature of the gospel to upend settled views.”
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The many varieties of anti-Semitism

Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.
Serene Jones
Interviews

Sin and grace in public discourse

“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
Bill McKibben
Interviews

Why climate activist Bill McKibben is concerned about AI and genetic engineering

“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”
Matthias Henze
Interviews

Jesus the (Second Temple-era) Jew

“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”
John Buchanan, Dean Peerman, and Martin E. Marty
People

Dean Peerman, a Century editor for 60 years, dies at age 87

In March 1965, he and fellow editor Martin E. Marty participated in the second civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.

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Interviews

Can Christianity be a counterforce to finance capitalism?

“Religious vocation sits very uneasily with individual self-advancement.”
Features

Getting college students to ask what makes life worth living

At Yale, classrooms full of future doctors, lawyers, and hedge fund managers are contemplating the good life.
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Zionism’s competing visions of Israel

Michael Brenner shows that contemporary debates have precedents in the origins of the movement.
In the Lectionary

April 22, Easter 4B (Psalm 23; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18)

The "jobsworth" and the good shepherd.
Almeda M. Wright
Interviews

The gifts of black youth

"Teens have the ability to do theological reflection and to connect their faith to issues of justice."
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The many perspectives of American evangelicalism

A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?

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