Kane’s primary purpose is to get past the idea that “church politics” can only mean bad things and to demonstrate how the ...

I encountered Kathleen Norris’s Acedia and Me at a time when just about everything felt like more trouble than it ...

By the major crisis point of the movie, their children are teenagers, and I could not for the life of me figure out why they ...

A river flows at scripture’s beginning. With its source in paradise, this river flows out of Eden before branching into the ...

Mac Loftin earned his PhD from Harvard University, where he studied the relationship between Christian theology and political thought. He is the author of In the Twilight of the Christian West: A ...

With President Trump announcing “the war is over” on Monday and Israel and Hamas trading hostages for Palestinian prisoners, ...

In 2015, the CENTURY published an advertisement with the headline “Seeking Clergy to Take Part in a Research Study of Psilocybin and Sacred Experience.” The notice from Johns Hopkins School of ...

Last fall I was invited to teach a course on Native American history for a mainline Protestant church in a Chicago suburb. The invitation came from the congregation’s antiracism task force, which ...

Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive ...

Taylor Swift more or less plays on repeat when I’m driving around with our kids, so the recent arrival of The Eras Tour film, a new version of “Cruel Summer,” and 1989 (Taylor’s Version) all generated ...

It’s rough to be a theologian of incredible insight and depth who is essentially forgotten or ignored for the first 550 years of your existence and then turned into a cliché for the last 100. Welcome ...

An advocate for faith expressed in action. A White, male evangelical who embraced the voices of the marginalized and made abundant room in leadership for new generations and for people of color. A ...