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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

Palimpsest

by Sarah Rossiter

August 7, 2018

Fireflies

by James Crews

August 2, 2018

Brushed by sin, tempted by salvation

by Susan Groff Johnston

July 26, 2018

Ritual

by Jeanne Murray Walker

July 23, 2018

To the Quaker statue in Fairmount Park

by Angela Bilger

July 19, 2018

Where color is spare

by Luci Shaw

July 10, 2018

A matins

by Peter Cooley

July 6, 2018

a poem for my sons when they yell at God

by Jacob Stratman

July 3, 2018

Gray distances

by Suzanne Underwood Rhodes

June 29, 2018

Determinism on a summer morning in the Midwest

There’s no such thing as free will and that’s bad, or so says / Stephen Cave in The Atlantic.

by Jeff Gundy

June 27, 2018

Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, exhalations

by William Kelley Woolfitt

June 22, 2018

Badlands: Utah

by Jeanne Murray Walker

June 20, 2018

Requiem

by Warren L. Molton

June 15, 2018

Vending machine theology

by Ed Zahniser

June 14, 2018

Praying for eyes to see

by Charles Hughes

June 8, 2018

The tempter returns

by Gracia Grindal

June 6, 2018

Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, dish towels

by William Kelley Woolfitt

June 1, 2018

Eve faces her guilt

by Gracia Grindal

May 31, 2018

The deer, lost

by Kendra Langdon Juskus

May 30, 2018

Arrival

by Joel  Showalter

May 25, 2018

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