New Year’s Day usually feels anticlimactic, and this one likely will be no different for many people. I find myself looking ...

At 67 years old, Rick Black turned from journalism to poetry. In last year’s Two Seasons in Israel: A Selection of Peace and ...

I once asked a child to give a Sunday sermon—on the book of Job.

Jason Mott’s wildly inventive novel depicts two Black American writers, an ocean apart. It’s up to the reader to decide how ...

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Flight.” ...

Christmas 2019We travel this route across desert searchingSouls weighed down by horror and despair.Artificial trees shimmer.

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

His stone coldmanger ponderingjust what Is ItGod hath wroughtin that slightly morethan a poundof flesh, or soabout to besome day, soonin a couple weeksor soto feelthe knife’s slice . . .as if ...

Why does a Mozart opera make me weepBut I don’t cry at any other one?Herr Wagner’s thunderbolts put me to sleep.Rossini’s ...

As these failures unfold, God always seems to be lingering in the background—not a theologically rigorous or morally ...

At first glance, the nativity scene outside Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, has all the traditional hallmarks: Mary ...

The anti-ICE and “Christ in the rubble” nativity scenes are also theologically profound—and fully in keeping with the best ...