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The gift of relying on others
Briallen Hopper develops an alternative to the twin American creeds of self-reliance and marriage.
October 27, Ordinary 30C (Luke 18:9-14)
Jesus' characters aren't nuanced; they're all elbows and ankles.
How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity
When unremitting human sin is something I expect, I can face evil without despair.
Episode 65: Booksmart
Matt and Adam are joined by Christy Lang Hearlson to talk adolescence, anger, and Booksmart.
Taking implicit racial bias seriously
Jennifer Eberhardt insists that personal prejudice is deeply embedded, politically potent, and ultimately beatable.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics plate and dawn.
The kinds of stories Toni Morrison told
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
(De)formed by wealth in Succession and Schitt’s Creek
Is there any redemption for the Roy family or the Rose family?
October 20, Ordinary 29C (Luke 18:1-8)
Injustice comes with so many alibis and aliases.
Visiting a tent city in Mexico created by Trump’s Migrant Protection Protocol
The children here are gaunt and listless. They are running out of time.
Can we survive the incalculable damage of climate change?
David Wallace-Wells charts a path for life in the wake of global warming.
The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds
Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.
When our past sins come up
There's no perfect way to atone, but humility is a good start.
Money in our hearts (Luke 16:1-13; Amos 8:4-7)
Jesus has a zeal against the human willingness to turn wealth into an idol.
