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Learning to see the planet as gift
At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in light of the Anthropocene.
Elie Wiesel’s defiant faith
Journalist Joseph Berger documents the writer’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced.
Emergency contacts
When we encounter a crisis, it’s helpful to have more phone numbers at the ready than just 911.
Emotional communism
More than ever, we need the common life we can create for each other, a shared life for the benefit of all.
Sanctified imagination (1 Corinthians 12:12-31a)
Life in Christ calls for a new kind of seeing and knowing.
How a boy band star from Boston became the beloved Imam Tay
Taymullah Abdur-Rahman demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation.
The academy needs better theologies of cooking
The first step is to give voice to those whose work in the kitchen is shaped by necessity, not choice.
Three kitchen theologians in their own words
Comments from Aminah Al-Attas Bradford, Natalie Carnes, and Kat Armas
Our top 24 of 2024
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
The heart of embodied theopoetics beats for liberation
A new edited volume seeks not to replace traditional, White male–focused theopoetics so much as to reshape the subject altogether.
January 26, Epiphany 3C (Luke 4:14-21)
When Jesus steps up to read the scroll, he comes home to a place of clarity.
Group work (1 Corinthians 12:1-11)
Sometimes ministry functions like a group project at school.
What does it mean to be a Christian in these times?
We have a cross at the center of our faith, and we need to start acting like it.