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The beautiful stillness of the Christ child
As the rotating nativity spun, I kept watching Jesus.
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people
Seeing Black people in scripture
Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
The Baptist War didn’t just end slavery in Jamaica
It utterly reshaped the country’s religious landscape.
Isolated for the holidays? You should feast anyway.
Even during a pandemic, feasting is central to Christian worship.
A religious studies thriller about Karen King’s “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”
Ariel Sabar’s nonfiction book contains more twists and turns than a car chase.
Magical realism and the word of the Lord (Advent 2B; Isaiah 40:1-11)
Mysterious truth in fiction and in reality
I’ve been a professor for 40 years, but teaching Greek to an eight-year-old may be my crowning achievement
It started with a FaceTime call with my grandson.
The words I turn to in times of grief and distress
“If it can’t be happy, make it beautiful.”