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August 22, Ordinary 21B (Psalm 84)
In Psalm 84, an expectant swallow makes her nest in the temple.
Voter suppression is lethal to democracy
We can’t let the filibuster keep us from doing something about it.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the words scrap and threshold.
In Mediterranean Europe, St. Benedict the Moor is back
The Afropean saint is reemerging amid a swelling African diaspora.
A landscape scarred by the trauma of eugenics
Elizabeth Catte traces the haunting history of forced sterilizations in Central Virginia.
On her deathbed, St. Clare of Assisi blessed God
Her radical final words confounded me for years.
August 15, Ordinary 20B (1 Kings 2:10–12; 3:3–14)
Solomon has everything—and still, he seeks transformation.
How I changed my mind about same-sex marriage
It began when I realized the church has always had a process for changing its mind.
A Palestinian evangelical’s supersessionism
Munther Isaac’s critique of the Israeli government is perfectly fair. But why does he also need to critique Judaism?