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Piranesi is the best kind of fantasy novel
Susanna Clarke weaves magic into her readers’ lives.
The Good Lord Bird portrays abolitionist John Brown as a wild prophet
The miniseries is full of big ideas about freedom and self-determination.
January 10, Baptism B (Mark 1:4–11)
Readers of Mark’s Gospel know that a divine fragmentation could happen at any time.
It’s time to end the cash bail system
You don’t get people to show up in court by threatening to take away money they never had.
Robert P. Jones says it’s past time to reckon with Christianity’s role in White supremacy
White Too Long envisions the hope that could follow recognition and repentance.
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.
