The Christian Century

The pope doesn't always show off his theological talents. Does that matter?

T. S. Eliot and the other modernist theologian-poets knew that artists are makers of worlds.

Do practices make us better people? Lauren Winner isn't so sure.

An evangelical case for pluralism

Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Witherington’s dialogue is most illuminating when the co-authors disagree.

Jeremiah Webster charts a via negativa in verse.

In his final memoir, Cone’s testimony resounds.

Gabriel Said Reynolds puts the two sacred texts into respectful, honest conversation.

Barbara Kingsolver shows that without truth, foundations crumble.

Faith’s core and its manifestations across cultures

Reading books is a virtuous act.

Pastoral, prophetic, and political

An ever-renewing narrative of community formed by difference

We need faith, Wiman suggests, because poetry isn't enough.

James Crews's poetry is at once ecstatic, skeptical, and hopeful.