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Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

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Poetry

Parable in Which No One Else in the Super 8 Breakfast Lounge Thinks About How This Hotel Might Outlive Us

by Sarah Carson
June 19, 2025

A Gathering of Physicists

by Janice Freytag
June 17, 2025

After Diagnosis:
A Summer Paean

by Sydney Lea
June 13, 2025

“Give sorrow words”

by Charles Hughes
June 11, 2025

Together Again

by Lisa Dordal
June 10, 2025

Bait Fish

by Luke Harvey
June 6, 2025

Half a Century

by Karen An-Hwei Lee
June 3, 2025

I Sit Among the Mothers

by Emily Patterson
May 27, 2025

Under Their Own Trees

by Bonnie Thurston
May 22, 2025

Actors’ House

by Steven Peterson
May 16, 2025

Out of the Woods

by Paul Willis
May 6, 2025

Begin Small, Then Wait

by Bonnie Thurston
May 1, 2025

Mystery

by Sarah Rossiter
April 29, 2025

risus paschalis:
the Easter laugh

by Lou Ella Hickman, OVISS
April 22, 2025

I Thirst

by Lou Ella Hickman, OVISS
April 18, 2025

Holy Week

by Bonnie Thurston
April 14, 2025

Poems for Haydn’s Seven Last Words of Christ

by Tania Runyan
April 8, 2025

Eucharist, April 2020

by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo
April 4, 2025

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