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

This slim volume by theologian Hanna Reichel is a first aid kit for people who are trying to reckon with an imperial presidency. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, ...

Cynthia R. Wallace teaches English at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, and is author of The Literary Afterlives of ...

In 1943, the French philosopher-mystic Simone Weil was working in London with the Free France resistance movement. Although she wanted to be on the front lines of the Second World War, she was ...

Weeks before Sarah Mullally is officially installed as the first female archbishop of Canterbury, a group of conservative Anglican prelates known as GAFCON renamed their body the Global Anglican ...

In this particular dream, I was attending a panel on character in America, a fitting topic just before the presidential ...

It is the discipline of a community that has resolved not to rush human life past its own dignity. When such practices erode, ...

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, Mike Huckabee, the Trump administration’s representative in Israel, was ...

We “discover” an obscure band only to run into people who’ve known about it for years. We read a book that appears to us as ...

Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for US surgeon general, preaches a broad, loosely-defined spirituality that blends ...

Last Lent, I found myself reckoning with the concept of failure—and beginning to understand the power of standing in ...

Religious violenceI was quite taken aback by Anna Piela and Michael Woolf’s article (“The making of Islamophobia”). I want to ...