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.

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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 ...

The scriptural concept of collective blessing challenges the pervasive logic that seems to be holding this country ...

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

Mindy Misener, a former teacher of college writing, is a student at Yale Divinity School. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's ...

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

Dan dropped by the church four or five times during the year after he lost his home. Despite his despairing circumstance, pride or shame kept him from accepting counsel, acknowledging his addiction, ...

Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and Democratic state senator in Iowa, has beaten Republican candidates in three ...