Should Christians who uphold the Bible as the word of God have to choose between love of God and love of the queer people in their lives? While the answer may seem obvious to most readers of this ...

I have always wanted to see the look on Qoheleth’s face. An innovative thespian on a spiritual quest recently gave me that chance. A colleague from the theater department at my university had told me ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

Hospitality as an exercise of Christian faith is not groundbreaking theology. The hospitality of early Christian communities was so great it earned them the ire of the Roman government. “These impious ...

This illuminating study by novelist, historian, and critic Eva Hoffman is a literary biography of the Polish Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz. One of the greatest writers of our time, Miłosz captures in ...

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion and a philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. He is author and translator of 23 books, including the award-winning Theological ...

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

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 ...