The Christian Century

My niece Butterfly has me thinking about bodies, love, and responsibility.

My parents arrived in the US with three suitcases and two toddlers. I’ve experienced wanderlust ever since. 

What wisdom can Christians find in Jesus’ meal-gathering around a religious holiday of his people?

She fled her homeland as a child. Years later, she forgave God.

Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.

Police violence against Black citizens is written into the script of American culture.

What if we did asystematic theology?

“What does it mean,” asks Willie Francois, “to cultivate leaders who are building power inside prison?”

If so, what did he mean?

Both his strengths and his failings are distinctly Catholic.

My church offered college students weekly fellowship. It turns out they needed the food, too.

One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.

They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.

At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.