Angels and fascists in 1939 London
Francis Spufford’s time-traveling fantasy asks what we’d sacrifice to rewrite the past.
Luke Timothy Johnson’s scholarly life
The prolific biblical scholar offers an engaging account of his career—and of the spiritual journey that helped shape it.
Christians have struggled to understand Judaism on its own terms
John Phelan’s book helps us unlearn what we thought we knew.
Is there a way beyond hyperpartisanship?
“We have remade our nation before and we can do it again.”
Editing the Christian Century through decades of cultural change
“It's the nature of the gospel to upend settled views.”
The many varieties of anti-Semitism
Deborah Lipstadt shows how anti-Semitic sentiment can spring up where we least expect it.
Sin and grace in public discourse
“We’ve lost the capacity to talk about the universality of brokenness—and belovedness.”
Why climate activist Bill McKibben is concerned about AI and genetic engineering
“It comes down to human solidarity. Another name for solidarity is love.”
Jesus the (Second Temple-era) Jew
“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”
Dean Peerman, a Century editor for 60 years, dies at age 87
In March 1965, he and fellow editor Martin E. Marty participated in the second civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
Can Christianity be a counterforce to finance capitalism?
“Religious vocation sits very uneasily with individual self-advancement.”
Getting college students to ask what makes life worth living
At Yale, classrooms full of future doctors, lawyers, and hedge fund managers are contemplating the good life.
Zionism’s competing visions of Israel
Michael Brenner shows that contemporary debates have precedents in the origins of the movement.
April 22, Easter 4B (Psalm 23; 1 John 3:16-24; John 10:11-18)
The "jobsworth" and the good shepherd.
The gifts of black youth
"Teens have the ability to do theological reflection and to connect their faith to issues of justice."