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Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.

On Christmas morning, he told us: he was considering suicide.

A man sleeping on a step? A baby in a manger?

It was on a Friday in spring 2021 that Letta Cartlidge decided she had seen enough.

In her backyard in a suburb of Denver, Colorado, a stack of bangles on her arm and an oversized cardigan draped around her shoulders, Cartlidge explained to the Century how on April 15, 2021, James McDowell, a former principal at Hillcrest—a boarding school primarily for the children of missionaries in Jos, Nigeria—admitted in a private Facebook group for Hillcrest alumni that he had “molested” two students during his tenure.

Dear friend,

I am going to assume you’re a positive person who enjoys people, radiates goodness, and thrives on hope. I’m also going to assume you’re familiar with discouragement. So, tell me if I have this much right: sometime in the last year you looked out over the sanctuary and congregation you love, and you wondered, What happened to the people? Why did so many kiss congregational life good-bye?

Social media movements fade. Survivors of sexual assault and harassment need living communities.

Tiffany Brooks offers much more than just another exvangelical anger manual.

John the Baptist is not sure if Jesus is very Christlike.