The Christian Century

He thrived on the process of endearing himself to all who hope for better days.

Silence, in the Christian tradition, is a shared discipline as much as an individual one.

That God would fight for Israel is meant to elicit horror.

My spirituality was shaped by this secular artist’s powerful spiritual questions.

His art is like the man who created it: joyful, loving, and gently curious.

He was among the first to ask, What is religion for a people birthed in the cradle of chattel slavery?

Those of us who worked with him sometimes suspected he had cloned himself.

We need to relearn a capacity to dwell in God’s presence.

Her radical final words confounded me for years.

We’re hungrier than ever for physicality, place, and embodiment.

Bishop Philipose Mar Chrysostom worked with unlikely partners—including communist leaders in Kerala—to bring about social change.

Most days I hover somewhere between Adam’s “I was afraid” and John of Patmos’s “Come, Lord Jesus.”

Before you had a human parent, you had a perfect one.

We need structural change. We also need to be willing to be personally undone.

He prayed things would get better. It’s not too late.