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Is the holy innocents story about the innocents? (Matthew 2:13–23)
"What an awful story," she said. "Why would that story be in the Bible?"
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The joy of things and the trap of excess
An ethicist and an anthropologist ask: How much is too much?
Our 16 most-read blog posts of 2016
Here are this year's most popular bloggers and posts from our site. Thanks for reading.
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No place to lay their heads
Two compelling novels reveal the horrors of forced displacement.
The ones that got away
As CC books editor, I get to peruse a lot of books. Too bad I can’t review them all.
Fascism can't be stopped by fact-checking
Confronting Trump's political project
Would Jesus be deported from the United States?
The larger context to this question might actually surprise you.
One of the Lord's witnesses (John 1:1–14)
When this woman heard what she thought to be true about the movement of God among us, she testified.
Holy crumbs for a holy world
As the children make their way out the door, trails of leftover communion bread go with them.
The news that matters
While the Romans were broadcasting fake news about the emperor as savior, God was at work elsewhere.
The Century invites reader submissions
The Century invites readers to submit first-person narratives on the topics wilderness and storm.
Un-Domesticating Advent: Matthew 2:16-18
If we are to understand the delivering power of Jesus’ coming and presence on the earth, we must un-domesticate the Jesus story.