The Christian Century

Our cost of living is about far more than the price of essential goods.

What if God longs for freedom as passionately as I do?

I cannot begin to imagine anything queerer than the doctrine of the Trinity.

Climate change will have religious consequences, especially in the Global South.

Oddly enough, some of the best TV shows about clergy come from secular Europe.

I recently came across a record by 1960s Episcopal priest and jazz musician Robert Owen.

In the Christian imagination, the two rightly go together.

After each service, I sweep up the dirt, specks of plastic, and tendrils of hair.

At a workshop, I was asked to list my failures. The experience has stayed with me.

Why would we refuse that help?

When seismic shifts unseat us, it’s the ordinary that puts us back together again.

I’ve been offering my tangled knots of questions and memories as prayers.

And three to replace them with

Local leaders sometimes convene to try to stop the violence in Chicago. But whose voices are at the table?

The ELCA is about to gather for a national assembly. There are friends trying to dig through the roof to open a way for those who have been left out.