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Patience is not one of my virtues, as those closest to me know. I want answers now, clarity now, unresolved issues settled now, anxiety lifted now.

I’m in a lot of conversations about why the denominational church isn’t working. But what about the communities that are ministering well? What about new communities?

New today from the Century.

Once upon a time—and not long ago—there was another Europe. The religious story of communist Europe, in which Christians suffered horrific persecutions, is forgotten by most Americans today.

A couple issues ago the Century ran an article by Matt Fitzgerald of Wellesley Hills UCC in Massachusetts, a church approached by a movie studio that needed a space rental to shoot an upcoming Adam Sandler movie.

New today from the Century.

Martha Nussbaum's perspective cuts to the heart of our tendency to exclude others when they fail to live up to expectations about how "good people" should be.

Take Shelter deals with the end of the world in a creepier and even more meta­phoric manner than von Trier's Melan­cholia.

Mercy Seat spends about $27,000 a year on the arts—a quarter of its annual budget. At those rates, the church is one of the better-paying gigs in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Some post-worship-war churches revel in musical eclecticism. Others have a singular approach and sound, rendering the terms traditional and contemporary irrelevant.

According to both Irenaus and Athanasios, God became like us so that we might become like God. Clement observes that through obedience one "becomes a god while still walking in the flesh."