The Christian Century

The Biden administration has reversed Trump’s rhetoric around migrants but not all of his policies.

When illness took over my life, I developed a new understanding of the Eucharist.

If we take the doctrine seriously, then we dare not draw the circle of salvation along religious lines. Or any lines at all.

This line of attack goes back to the White Christian opponents of the 19th-century abolition movement.

The Jesuit explorer was a friend to Native Americans. At last, he’s going home.

As my father was dying, I saw God’s radiant face more clearly.

I was a United Methodist pastor. He was a campus minister with Cru.

My queer IQ was low. I decided to show up anyway.

And it was enabled by social structures of permission.

In the life of early Israel, Gottwald found a God of economic justice.

Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.

With her own voice changed by the stroke, she wanted to hear the Bible spoken aloud by her husband.

Now we tend to see it as a virtue—at least for some people.

Sometimes I picture its author looking down at us and shaking his head.

Be like water: clear, humble, persistent, and restorative.