Annelisa Burns
Annelisa Burns is a student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the Century’s research assistant.
Women after incarceration
Anthropologist Jorja Leap bears witness to the struggles of women reentering society through programs designed for men.
“My mama was womanist. My grandma is womanist. Just because they don’t have the language or the identifier doesn’t make them less womanist.”
The frightening side of baptism
Peter Leithart argues that the sacrament’s violence is surprisingly good news.
“I was a child who loved to read. But I didn’t see a lot of characters that looked like me.”
Lauren Redniss’s Oak Flat is about the conflict over sacred Apache land in Arizona
It’s also about a conflict within the order of the universe.