“The waves of violence and celebration cut against the heart of Christian teaching—Jesus famously taught us to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us—but even some left-leaning Christians celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death.” – Lilia Ellis www.christiancentury.org/features/kir...

“James Baldwin calls on White Americans to ‘do their first works over’—to return not with nostalgia but with moral reckoning.” – Kelly Brown Douglas www.christiancentury.org/voices/freed...

“There is a growing movement, broad based and tactically nonviolent, to defend American democracy. As people mobilize, they are looking to community organizations for help.” – the Christian Century editors www.christiancentury.org/editors/time...

Patrick Condon builds on existing inequality research to focus on one big problem: the price of urban land. A review by Tim Dickau. www.christiancentury.org/books/priced...

“Your memory, an intellect / with a moth hole.” – from Luci Shaw’s new poem: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/moth-...

“I would never have noticed the tiny spider descending, dreamlike, thread unseen” – Read Sarah Rossiter’s new poem: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/river...

“If we’re willing to dream new dreams together, there are tools we can learn to use to refashion the places we live into places of shared thriving.” – @larsakerson.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/map...

Taste & Read, our new free newsletter, sets the table for a hearty conversation about food and faith. Featuring theological reflections, highlights from Century archives, and even the occasional recipe or two. Sign up today! www.christiancentury.org/taste-read-e...

“Horror represents a setting in which the transcendent and the numinous are still present, even after they have been so thoroughly excluded from mainstream discourse.” – Philip Jenkins reviews Theology of Horror (@undpress.bsky.social) www.christiancentury.org/books/when-m...

“It has never been easy for long-established, entrenched communities to open their doors to strangers and foreigners. It shouldn’t be surprising to us that the crux of Jonah’s complaint lies in the possibility of God’s grace extending to a foreign city like Nineveh.” – Peter Choi

“This enraging callousness, this unjust distribution of wealth, is Jesus’ lede, and not just rhetorically but also ethically and theologically.” – @jonmathieu.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/lectionary/s...

“Bonhoeffer’s interpretive moves empower one to pray the imprecatory psalms. These prayers foster wide-eyed protest against evil speech and action. They assert and publicize the God of love and justice.” – Jeff Jay www.christiancentury.org/features/pra...

“We can’t ever really give up our privilege, because it’s connected to our identity. But we do have a choice to use it differently.” – @brandanrobertson.bsky.social on Madang Podcast, hosted by @gracejisunkim.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/episode-52-b...

“Community is one of the things people in their 20s most long for—and not just with other young people.” – E. Suzanne Wille reviews Jeffrey F. Keuss www.christiancentury.org/books/what-d... @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social

“When How To Train Your Dragon hit theaters in June, I thought that I was in for a good family movie. What I did not expect was that the film would lead me back to René Girard’s moving work on mimetic theory and atonement.” – Michael Woolf www.christiancentury.org/features/bre...

“When I got home, I googled, ‘Where is the head of Pancho Villa?’ I learned that the answer is unknown.” – Amy Frykholm www.christiancentury.org/features/mis...

“Bob Dylan plays with the questions, refusing to abide by the conventions of an interview. With every response, he redirects the conversation. … The Jesus we encounter in the gospels also doesn’t give the crowds exactly what they want.” – Isaac Villegas www.christiancentury.org/voices/confo...

Patriot is a posthumous memoir of resistance to Putin. It is also, at its core, a love story. David S. Robinson reviews Alexei Navalny. @aaknopf.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/prison...

“This is blasphemy and must be torn out root and branch.” – Mac Loftin www.christiancentury.org/features/bla...

“Jeremiah is the emo prophet.” – @jonmathieu.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/lectionary/s... #lectionary

“How could a faith based on the life and ministry of Jesus ever lead to movements of nationalism, warmongering, and worship of the state? The answer has to do with our theology.” – Brandon Ambrosino www.christiancentury.org/features/whe...

“What is it about enemy love that seems so impossible, so naive, despite being a plain commandment of Jesus? Look at the social media tides, and a common pattern emerges: a special mix of pleasure, anger, and hurt that feeds on itself.” —Lilia Ellis www.christiancentury.org/features/kir...

“For the prophets, death and destruction are never the final word. If there is plucking up and pulling down, there is also building and planting.” – Peter Choi www.christiancentury.org/voices/word-...

“René Girard’s theological vocabulary has helped me shed my scales and risk myself in a church community again, despite living in (and being scandalized by) red Ohio.” – Lyle Enright www.christiancentury.org/features/pos...

Political violence is morally unacceptable, against Charlie Kirk or anyone else. It’s also strategically shortsighted. A new editorial from our team. www.christiancentury.org/editors/time...

“One of the most remarkable features of Christianity in America is that the Bible has been a powerful weapon not only for oppressors, but also for the oppressed.” – @mattschlimm.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/scripture/no...

“The fictional stories, which draw from the authors’ real-life experiences as pastors and chaplains, spit us into the visceral, unrelenting body horror of end-of-life care.” – @bleaktheology.bsky.social reviews Matthew Holmes and Thomas R. Gaulke www.christiancentury.org/books/apocal...

“The poet says what we already know— the crowds will eat and drink their wine while a saint aflame dies nearby” – Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, in a new poem www.christiancentury.org/poetry/rome-...

“Jesus the poet named what always was, saw the holy in each thing, and was the holy in each thing.” – Jennifer Frayer-Griggs www.christiancentury.org/features/we-...

“This is what The Bear has always been about: against his own experience, Carmy wants to believe that art and excellence don’t require trauma and abuse.” – Kathryn Reklis www.christiancentury.org/screen-time/...

What happens when AI chatbots are used as chaplains or spiritual guides? Jon chats with Danielle Tumminio Hansen to find out. youtu.be/MaDUn4mWm1s

Writer @annajrollins.bsky.social chats with @jonmathieu.bsky.social about the nature of truth, inside and beyond the conservative Christianity they both used to practice. youtu.be/fdS1YX-aB9I?...

“Kevin Sack’s recounting of Mother Emanuel’s founding in 1817 and how it withstood two centuries of persecution reads like Greek mythology, a testament to the resilience of a people committed to the advent of the kingdom of God.” – Elizabeth Robeson www.christiancentury.org/books/mother...

“Tyler, the Creator’s album Don’t Tap the Glass suggests that our phone cameras pose a threat to our embodied human freedom.” – @christhiessen.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/fea...

“Years of listening to the sermons and testimonies of incarcerated Christians taught me that entering prison is a descent into hell, following the crucified Jesus into one of the devil’s remaining strongholds.” – @melissaf-b.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/priso...

“And so this nation’s and this magazine’s history seems to repeat a cycle. As in the days of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy, there are strains of Christianity that opt for progress and others that choose regress.” – the Christian Century editors www.christiancentury.org/editors/chri...

“Trauma in religious spaces is not limited to physical and sexual abuse. It can also include social, mental, and emotional abuse.” – Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans www.christiancentury.org/features/gro...

“The missing head of Pancho Villa has a lot to say about the Mexican-American border, the secrets of American empire, and the Trump era.” – Amy Frykholm www.christiancentury.org/features/mis...

“If we aren’t prepared to spend eternity with our enemies, then maybe we, like Trump, are in danger of not making it there.” – Brandon Ambrosino www.christiancentury.org/features/con...

“Sons and Daughters is an essential argument for why Chaim Grade, not Isaac Bashevis Singer, was the Yiddish writer most deserving of the Nobel.” – Beth Kissileff in her review of a new translation of Chaim Grade’s final work www.christiancentury.org/books/betwee...

“In Jesus, the distinction between guest and host becomes hopelessly and gloriously confused.” – Samuel Wells www.christiancentury.org/voices/guest...

“I just wanted to be myself in the world, and I didn’t want to not be myself.” – iconographer William Hart McNichols, in the latest episode of Queering Contemplation with Cassidy Hall www.christiancentury.org/episode-14-q...

“she appears in the sunroom, manifests—like a fairy—a syringe from her frock coat pocket, ceremoniously uncaps it, smiles, holds it above her head, depresses its piston, flicks its barrel.” – Read Joseph Bathani’s entire poem www.christiancentury.org/poetry/lovenox

“Into all this darkness come the real rituals of the church—queered, made literal, but still powerful enough to enact change.” – @olivalejandra.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/dark-...

“Liberalism transformed from the David doing battle with each era’s prevailing Goliath into a new Goliath—a giant that gets lampooned and harpooned by just about everyone.” – Wayne N. Miller reviews Kevin M. Schultz @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/brief-...

“Katherine Stewart's Money, Lies, and God makes it clear that Christian nationalism is not precisely Christian. It includes people who hold various religious commitments and policy agendas.” – review by Aaron Klink www.christiancentury.org/books/inside...

“The church’s mission is not to make America great again, but to feed the hungry because the hungry person needs bread.” – Peter W. Marty www.christiancentury.org/first-words/...

“Those who seek spiritual support need embodied caregivers, because only a person can empathize. Only a person can take your hand in theirs and authentically say, ‘I’m with you. You are not alone.’” – Danielle Tumminio Hansen www.christiancentury.org/features/my-...

“Tyrants are not as powerful or permanent as they think—thank God their reigns always pass.” – Peter Choi www.christiancentury.org/voices/word-...

“Even without formal training, a lay preacher from the congregation has an obvious advantage over any AI-­generated sermon: they know the people they are preaching to.” – Zac Koons www.christiancentury.org/features/pri...