Elizabeth Palmer
Start over at the beginning (Easter Day B) (Mark 16:1-8)
Mark's Gospel and “There's a Hole in the Bucket”
Imagine how Christian teaching could transform our lives
Mark Jordan’s gentle, urgent invitation
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
Michael Cohen’s tell-all about Trump is mostly about himself
The moral lessons of his humiliation and imprisonment seem fairly limited.
Multigenerational rage, holy listening, and the unveiling of another way
A conversation between Parker Palmer, Stephen Lewis, Matthew Wesley Williams, and Dori Baker about the book Another Way
Being church while the neighborhood burns
“There’s a fire that cannot be extinguished except by justice.”
Thinking about Good Friday during a pandemic
This year the Solemn Reproaches are speaking to me in a new way.
The line between human and nonhuman
Alice Hoffman’s Holocaust novel collapses the boundaries between reality and fantasy.
Children’s books for tough conversations
We asked 11 writers to tell us about a book that opens up space for adults and children to discuss important questions.
Accompanying immigrants as they negotiate an unjust system
"It’s easy to think of the border as some remote, far-off place, but the truth is that there are detention centers in nearly every state."
The great multitude (Revelation 7:9-17)
As theophanies go, this one is oddly comforting.
Talking with Miriam Toews about Women Talking
“My novel is just one small part of a conversation that can’t be silenced.”
Knowing and preaching the Jewish Jesus
“If to get a good message you need to make Judaism look bad, then you don’t have a good message.”
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Dismantling anti-Jewish readings of the Passion story
Jesus, Amy-Jill Levine reminds us, was a Jew.
Working within neighborhoods to end mass incarceration
"By building social capacity, communities can respond to their own issues rather than rely on responses from the criminal justice system."
A story that puts you in an Amazon warehouse worker’s shoes
Heike Geissler’s account of her time at Amazon is far more than a workplace exposé.