The Christian Century

New today from the Century: The editors on military spending, Scott Poole on The Bible and Satan, more.

New today from the Century: John Buchanan on the pastoral importance of Eastertide, Debra Dean Murphy on Steubenville, more.

Twice in the past two years I've taken a hard fall on ice: once at night walking on a dimly-lit sidewalk and another time on black ice in broad daylight. The first time no one was around. The second time I was in a public parking lot. My first act after the fall—before getting up—was to look around to see if anyone had observed my embarrassing fall.

Gordon Cosby, the prophetic founder of the Church of the Savior, passed away yesterday. I interviewed Cosby in the fall of 2009 in the library of the Festival Center, one of the many buildings in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington D.C. where the (un)church that Cosby founded in the 1950s has thrived.

In our interview, Cosby—at 91 dynamic and impassioned—talked about how ministries have an “essence.”