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Matthew L. Skinner recommends the best recently published books in his field.

Colson Whitehead has created a world as compelling—and as intolerable—as our own.

By some estimates, three quarters of Americans don't really know their next-door neighbor.

What to do with that stack of old Bibles (or that stack of old issues of the Century)?

Other people have the things I want, and they seem fine.

Hong Kong's democracy movement is not Christian, but many key activists are.

Reading Steve and Sharol Hayner's cancer story, I found myself taking on the role of Job's adversary.

In a Century cover story, Katherine Willis Pershey mentions that she infuriated a friend with her beliefs about sex before marriage. That friend was me.

If the law and the prophets could have provided some warning to the rich man, there must more than his wealth that matters in this parable about him and Lazarus.

Memoir can be self-indulgent. It can also be serious moral reflection.

Martha Nussbaum says we don't. She's wrong.

In 1900, W.E.B. Du Bois named the color line as the problem of the 20th century. The color line, which still persists, is on trial this presidential election. While Donald Trump polls low among black voters, these numbers have improved slightly. 

It’s a joy to engage face-to-face again with students in the classroom. But it also brings a constant stream of decisions about how to build a learning community.

When I read this week's Gospel, I remember two lepers I saw at a train station in India—how alone they were.