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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 Sin-Boldly-Bulwark-Never-Failing Blues

by Bill Stadick

October 12, 2017

Autumnals

by Philip C. Kolin

October 6, 2017

Silence

by Sarah Rossiter

September 27, 2017

Bonhoeffer at the Abyssinian Baptist Church

by Benjamin Myers

September 26, 2017

as once was so

by Carl Winderl

September 22, 2017

Flannery’s confession

by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

September 19, 2017

Voyager

by Benjamin Myers

September 15, 2017

Eighth day

by Susan L. Leary

September 13, 2017

After the earthquake

by Donna Pucciani

September 8, 2017

Growing up evangelical in the nineteen seventies

by Bill Stadick

August 29, 2017

Azaleas

by Philip C. Kolin

August 25, 2017

The widowed professor’s new purpose

by Charles Hughes

August 22, 2017

Broken oud

by Aaron Brown

August 18, 2017

Grace and the TSA

by Connie Zumpf

August 16, 2017

Beyond doubt

by Kathleen O’Toole

August 14, 2017

Ascension Day

by Rick Heiman

August 7, 2017

Land-and-sea

by Leslie Williams

August 2, 2017

Cedar Waxwings

by Jacob Stratman

July 31, 2017

And here is a full church

The sanctuary is quiet now. / Maple leaves, scattered yellow cake crumbs, / the only evidence of the passing ...

by Hillary Kobernick

July 17, 2017

Salt figure

by Samuel Smith

July 11, 2017

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