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Emerging from the dark (Luke 17:11-19)
In the West Bank town of Burqin, there is a Roman cistern that is said to have once housed people with leprosy.
More thoughts on private morality
I’m back with another column, and I’m still being a killjoy.
What does White Christian nationalism have to do with yoga?
In his new book, Stewart Home analyzes the wellness-to-fascism pipeline.
The parasocial power of AI
For some reason, it is sometimes easier for us to see personhood in a chatbot than in a fellow human.
The self-appointed cowboy messiah
Rachel Wagner traces the way frontier fantasies and apocalyptic faith fuel today’s gun-obsessed culture.
Readers Write
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives inspired by the word twilight or fall.
October 12, Ordinary 28C (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7)
Jeremiah isn’t panicking. He’s incandescent with holy resolve.
Yes, Charlie Kirk was a missionary
Trump is right about this—but not for the reasons he claimed.
The silent, suffering God
I’ve spent weeks in the hospital this year. I keep waiting for God to speak.
Pentecostalism for the people
Progressive politics can flow naturally from a life of prayer. I learned this from my Latine Pentecostal family.
What is English Christianity?
Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English church.
When Frances Perkins took on the bigots
According to historian Rebecca Graham, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment.
The rhythm of a difficult song
Recently I reread the Psalms. I could feel the turbulence of the world that gave birth to them.
Being devoted to being inspired
“We spend a lot of time identifying kids with talent and training them on technique,” says writer Carey Wallace. “But there’s virtually no rigorous thought on inspiration.”