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Robin Lovin
Robin Lovin, a Century contributing editor, is the author of Christian Realism and the New Realities.
Moral church, amoral society
Maybe Christian Realism is the best option we have today.
February 21, 2019
Which new books deserve a spot under the Christmas tree?
We asked our contributing editors to each pick two.
November 26, 2018
James Comey didn’t write a tell-all. He wrote a handbook.
What does ethical leadership look like?
August 29, 2018
Shaping Public Theology, by Max L. Stackhouse
The essays in this volume provide an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Max Stackhouse's thought, and they raise provocative questions about how we are constructing public theology today.
May 28, 2015
Accidental impact: Resident Aliens at 25
Resident Aliens, a work of theology, was put to use as applied sociology. The description of life in the Christian colony became, paradoxically, a formula for success.
September 19, 2014
Highly evolved questions: What scientists and theologians talk about
We can learn a lot from interdisciplinary conversation. But we are sometimes puzzled by how our colleagues know what they seem to know.
July 29, 2013
In the Days of Caesar, by Amos Yong
In the course of the 20th century, Pentecostalism expanded from a small revival movement to a global presence comparable in its extent and variety to Roman Catholicism or Anglicanism....
November 22, 2011
Unclear future: 9/11: Ten years later
Read more reflections on the 9/11 anniversary....
August 18, 2011
Sovereignty: God, State and Self
We have come a long way from the naked public square....
October 20, 2008
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Two distinguished scholars offer us important new statements about Christian ethics....
May 5, 2008

Still on a mission
Walter Russell Mead was an early advocate of expanding American power in the vacuum left by the end of the cold...
March 24, 2008
No going back: Freedom, Moscow style
Despite assurances that the cold war is over, relations between Russia and the United States suggest a certain nostalgia for that era on both sides....
August 7, 2007

In his steps: Beyond the assumption that everybody is just like us
I’m teaching “The Bible and Ethics” this semester with my New Testament colleague Mark Chancey....
October 3, 2006
Faithful and effective: A working doctrine of grace
It’s been a good season for scandal. Bribery sent a California congressman to prison. Fraud charges provided courtroom drama in Houston....
June 13, 2006