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I inspected the donkey's teeth, though I wasn’t totally sure how this was going to help me.

Putting the truth out there about my tremor has made free in unexpected ways.

I relate to physical sickness more easily than mental illness. So does our culture.

The Century asked professors, writers, and policy makers to tell us about a book they would want to hand to their elected officials to read.

Theologies of entitlement, enslaving, and extinguishing indigenous communities have shaped policy since the 15th century.

Sometimes social media and texting aren't appropriate when someone's grieving. Sometimes they are.

Even in the secular imagination, dying has become a vocation.

Sex is complicated. So is Christian reflection on it.

As we make laws and try to adjudicate justice, we often lose sight of the human faces affected.

Matthew Skinner, Philip Jenkins, Grant Wacker, and Mary Clark Moschella recommend the best new books in their fields.

Maybe the parable of the persistent widow isn't about God. Maybe it's about us.

There’s a place in society for prophetic denunciation. There’s also a place for restraint.

The United States has been engaged for decades in a seemingly endless series of wars and military operations.

I should have known better. Grandma had nine decades under her belt of doing things her way.

It's dangerous to stress that an abuser isn't all bad. It's also accurate.

Ideas about the ghetto matter. They always have.

Mary Clark Moschella recommends the best recently published books in her field.

We can no longer pretend that the scales of justice in America are fair and balanced.

I move a lot. So did Jesus and the disciples.