Congregational ministry is demanding. I know this firsthand, having given this calling everything I had for 39 years.

The tree remains a figure for grief.                              —Louise GlückFebruary, your death, then April, the tree a dazzling pool of pink where I fish for remembrance— just last year, and the ...

Aaron Stauffer offers a nuanced study of the radical social gospel and broad-based organizing.

The Slave graves were sandstone, anonymous, gathered in rows near my great-great grandparents’ monuments. When mr. henson ...

Mary Eileen Ball is a writer from the Deep South. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you covered. Since 1900, the ...

By now, some 1 million TikTok users have viewed a video posted on the social media platform last week warning people away ...

“How can you not believe in God after Auschwitz?” A rabbi put this question to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, ...

As Cobra Kai’s final season is about to air, we are living in the aftermath of the political backlash to The Karate Kid’s ...

At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in ...

The sermon’s duration was less than 15 minutes. Its theme—a call for unity grounded in faith at a time of political ...

Any theology of cooking that is worth engaging ought to start from a place of understanding the wisdom and limitations of ...

Before I even saw the caption, I knew who I was looking at in the photograph of a member of Congress cleaning up debris in the Capitol rotunda late on the night of January 6, 2021. He was dutifully ...