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Looking out the window in wartime
We still have power: We can choose whether to give violence the last word.
God’s whole body and ours
A multisensory, embodied approach to worship works well for many people with disabilities—and for everyone else, too.
Honest storytelling, rules for preaching, and more reader feedback
What we’ve heard from our readers
A rabbi’s unlikely path
Angela Buchdahl writes honestly about her accomplishments, her hardest moments, and the routine difficulties of showing up in Jewish spaces with a Korean face.
The scars of a flourishing human
Many people assume that disability is bad for a person’s well-being. But historically we haven’t been very good at determining what’s bad for someone.
The Century wins 15 Associated Church Press awards
Top awards in critical review, international reporting, poetry, and more
June 7, Ordinary 10A (Genesis 12:1–9)
All of the narrative details in the call of Abram story reinforce a single point: God commands Abram to go, and Abram goes.
I’m mourning the end of the Voting Rights Act
Why shred this law when Congress is still disproportionately White and segregation is still endemic?
Identity, relationship, generativity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
The creation story gives us a glimpse of the nature of God whom we name as the Holy Trinity.
Gutting the vote
The downfall of the Voting Rights Act is devastating—and familiar.
Saved by bad art
As AI continues to proliferate, I’ve been inviting my students to create something—anything.
Underground apocalypse
In three current series—Paradise, Silo, and Fallout—bunkers owned by billionaires dictate the options for post-apocalyptic existence.
The faiths that formed the United States
The religious landscape of early America was far from homogenous, argues Matthew Sutton.
Natural death and Christian love
The most religious people are also statistically the most likely to place their faith in artificial life support. Why?
Readers Write
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words Seam and Fire.