The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way to a hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself.

Many theologians have gestured toward Bonhoeffer’s late reflections on religionless Chris­tianity, and for good reason. In a secular age, the phrase is evergreen—and it’s all the more winsome because ...

Meggan Watterson finds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla a seven-step journey for personal growth.

The bewilderment of the women at the tomb gives way toa hope that overturns power, shame, and death itself. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...

One Battle After Another makes no argument for the “right” sort of revolutionary action. It’s more concerned with the ...

The Hebrew Bible and the Qur’an celebrate the courage of a woman and her daughter from an ethnically marginalized class: Moses’ mother and sister. In a story that has inspired people across millennia, ...

Nicole Schrag teaches English and writing at the University of Tampa. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you covered.

Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.

The brief Biblical account of Herod’s slaughter of innocents raises the question of what faith demands when politics fails to ...

I wasn’t sure about the MDiv,” says Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, a chaplain and pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. “But in Ferguson, I ...

It is at this time, when patriotism is causing bloodshed, that this effort to invent a new form must be made.” Against Hitler’s obsession with greatness, Weil suggests a patriotism motivated by ...

Yet I’d rarely given thought to the grammar of our faith, to how bound up language is in our ability to have hope during what feel like hopeless times, until recently. That is, until I had a spiritual ...