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May 30, Ascension (Luke 24:44-53)
It can be excruciating to long for something just out of reach.
Rachel Held Evans’s labor of love
Rachel’s work changed the trajectory of American Christianity, but she was always grounded and generous.
The point of talking about reparations is to reckon with generations of racial injustice
HR 40 is about more than money. It’s about grappling with history.
The miracles of Julie Yip-Williams’s life and death
A cancer memoir about a life sustained by improbable events
4 gifts Rachel Held Evans gave us
Rachel grasped the true arc of Christianity: that death comes before life, that doubt comes before belief, that the gospel comes to us in a world that is sick.
Rachel Held Evans, Christian writer and speaker, dies at age 37
Evans’s books A Year of Biblical Womanhood, Searching for Sunday, and Inspired traced the evolution of her faith.
The Philippines is 80% Catholic. President Duterte is ferociously anti-Catholic.
How on earth did this happen?
J. Peter Sartain to retire as archbishop of Seattle and Paul Etienne to step into role
Sartain, who is in poor health, had requested a coadjutor archbishop serving alongside him in a transition period. Pope Francis chose Etienne.
UMC court ruling upholds restrictions on LGBTQ clergy and couples
In a separate ruling, the Judicial Council upheld an exit plan that allows churches to leave the denomination with their property.
The Best of Enemies is a movie centered on one white man’s conversion
Personal conversion is part of social change, but we can’t end our stories there.
Becoming a neighborhood church
The separate spheres of our lives, and the imagination it takes to forge deeper community
Sudanese Christians join popular protests, call for religious freedom
Members of Sudan’s Christian minority have taken a prominent role in the demonstrations that began in December.
A personal narrative of addiction and the culture that birthed it
Leslie Jamison weaves cultural critique into her memoir about alcohol and creativity.
Church security and the risks of hospitality
My church has Fort Knox-level safety protocols. Why?
Response to mass shooting at California synagogue emphasizes shared humanity
“We are all created equal,” said the pastor of the Presbyterian church where the 19-year-old shooter is a member.
May 26, Easter 6C (John 5:1-9)
Like a girl jumping double dutch, Jesus has perfect timing.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics lapse and feet.
