The Christian Century

A new book challenges the scholarly consensus about one of the Hebrew Bible's central stories.

We should forebear one another—not to ensure church unity, but because God forebears us.

The folk singer has observed what brings neighbors together in communities where she performs.

Stephen Greenblatt weaves an impressive—but incomplete—tapestry of interpretations of the story of the Fall.

It didn't eliminate war. Still, it transformed international relations.

A new book of essays shows that evangelicals aren't all the same culturally or politically. So what's holding them together?

E. J. Dionne, Norman Ornstein, and Thomas Mann see this presidency as a distortion of the country's character. But what if it's the opposite?

As a mother and a woman of color, I read Camille Dungy's book as a personal roadmap.

Ted Genoways overturns assumptions not only about industrial agriculture but also about the farmers who are part of it.