The hero of Trevor Noah’s story
If you think the Daily Show host is funny, you should meet his mother.
Pedagogy of the embodied
Mark Jordan shows us Aquinas—and God—in the flesh.
Poems of witness
Molly McCully Brown recovers the lives of women at an institution notorious for its eugenics program.
A cure for liberalism?
John Milbank & Adrian Pabst consider Western society’s many problems and offer a prescription: virtue.
Questions in Genesis
A book of essays asks, is the Bible literature? How is a blessing like an oath? And what if Eve was just hungry?
Macy Halford’s two worlds
A New Yorker staffer investigates the evangelical book that will not let her go.
When immigrants are demonized, how does the church respond?
What Christians did—and didn’t do—about the Japanese internment.
The many colors of betrayal
When does compromise descend into treason or apostasy?
The Century asked writers and teachers, Which three authors—living or dead—would you invite over for dinner?
A president walks into a Buddhist purgatory
The new George Saunders novel turns a crazy idea into a deeply moving story.