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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

The cleaning lady

by Yehiel E. Poupko
October 3, 2025

How to Become a Saint When You’re Not a Perfectionist

by Timothy Larsen
October 1, 2025

Moth Hole

by Luci Shaw
September 25, 2025

Riveredge

by Sarah Rossiter
September 24, 2025

Reliquary

by Paul Willis
September 22, 2025

Coming Back

by Margaret Mackinnon
September 18, 2025

We Call Them Harbor Seals

by Mary Lane Potter
September 16, 2025

O Rome, you are a heartless lover

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
September 11, 2025

This Is My Blood: A Liturgy
for Brother Mosquito

by Robby Waddell
September 9, 2025

Fickle

by Bonnie Thurston
September 5, 2025

Lovenox

by Joseph Bathanti
September 3, 2025

To My Friend, Between Scans

by Ruth Nicholson
August 29, 2025

At the Good Day Café

by Greg Huteson
August 27, 2025

The Message I Receive

by Lisa Dordal
August 26, 2025

Wednesday’s Child

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
August 21, 2025

On Wanting to Kiss Kandinsky’s Heavy Circles and di Paolo’s Baptism of Christ 

by Alea Peister
August 19, 2025

Carrying the Shell to Iona

by Margaret Mackinnon
August 15, 2025

Equinox

by Marci Rae Johnson
August 12, 2025

Matter Matters

by Bonnie Thurston
August 8, 2025

We Call It Hunger

by Sarah Carson
August 1, 2025

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