“Through personal essays, nuanced reporting, and original illustrations, Martha Park grapples with religious ambivalence and ecological care as she wonders how faith both compels and hinders our love for a planet in peril.” – review by Annelise Jolley @hubcitypress.bsky.social

“Some Americans know exactly what time it is, because it’s their families, neighbors, parishioners, and communities under threat—ICE has brought the problem to them. And they’re responding.” – the Christian Century editors www.christiancentury.org/editors/faci...

“The occupation is best understood as Christians punishing Christians who refuse to say the Russian invasion is divinely sanctioned.” – @attheedges.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/pas...

“Eugene Peterson’s theology was not what I found most compelling in his work . . . Above all, it was his insistence that we live and minister as if God is real.” – Katherine Willis Pershey www.christiancentury.org/features/ple...

“Jo Bertini’s career has been shaped by deserts across the globe, and the Australian painter infuses her canvases with a sense of reverence and intimacy.” – art commentary from Yohana Junker: www.christiancentury.org/art/jo-berti...

“The depredations of ICE, which has emerged as the president’s private masked army, have been so extreme that ‘abolish ICE’ is rapidly becoming the common-sense, middle-of-the-road, boring Democratic Party position.” – @philipchristman.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/aboli...

“Trible’s work energized many, often younger, scholars in biblical studies—along with countless Christian preachers who found her interpretations both accessible and preachable.” – Susanne Scholz, in a tribute to Phylis Trible (1932–2025) www.christiancentury.org/features/bor...

My latest for the Christian Century - probably my most robust theological reflection on my experiences at #Broadview.

“Eve Tibbs, who teaches theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, offers in this beautiful new volume a brief explanation of Orthodox iconography, accompanied by brilliant photos.” – review by @scotmcknight.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/illumi...

“Museums and public spaces are great settings for art displays that can spark new perspectives, alter viewpoints, and force a confrontation with issues we may otherwise ignore or be unaware of.” – Peter W. Marty www.christiancentury.org/first-words/...

“One zealous officer even grabbed my chest and twisted hard. I was wearing my clerical collar, and another agent said something that has stuck with me ever since: ‘Jesus said to follow the law.’” – Michael Woolf www.christiancentury.org/features/whe...

“My colleague’s Black church was taking a break from anti-racism work with White churches. So we decided to sing together.” – @melissaf-b.bsky.social, in her latest column: www.christiancentury.org/voices/share...

Can prayer be reclaimed, even as many misuse it or write it off entirely? @jonmathieu.bsky.social chats with activist and CC online columnist @crbernasol.bsky.social. youtu.be/G8nwZoNVvWw?...

“This story is a snapshot of the remarkable scholar I came to love, not only for her groundbreaking work but for her unassuming self.” – Julie Faith Parker, in a tribute to Phyllis Trible (1932–2025) www.christiancentury.org/features/gir...

“Richard Rohr seeks a positive vision for the earth and its people, one that inspires rather than blames. If outrage is killing us, weeping will heal us.” – review by Jen Pollock Michel www.christiancentury.org/books/weepin...

“We’re used to seeing the Hollywood version: the martyr is pure and holy . . . But according to Perpetua’s account, martyrdom was a sort of asymmetrical information warfare.” – Sarah Ruden, in an interview by Lilia Ellis www.christiancentury.org/interviews/i...

“We often liken the pervasive oversight of our surveillance state to the all-seeing eye of God. But our responses to these two limitless gazes are vastly different.” – Arthur Aghajanian www.christiancentury.org/features/god...

In her new memoir, Miriam Toews explores connections between suicide, silence, and writing. @julielmoore23.bsky.social reviews A Truce That Is Not Peace (@bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social). www.christiancentury.org/books/writin...

“Given the general confusion about the institution of marriage in our wider culture, I was initially excited to see what the doubleheader of The Roses and Splitsville could offer our popular imagination.” – Kathryn Reklis www.christiancentury.org/screen-time/...

“The pattern of appointing women after a sexual abuse crisis reflects an overall trend called the ‘glass cliff,’ in which women and people of color are appointed to leadership roles following any kind of debacle.” – Danielle Tumminio Hansen www.christiancentury.org/features/sar...

“The Nimbus is a novel about intellectual passion, the professional ambition that cannibalizes it, and the chaotic space in which explaining the world, justifying your own existence, and making a living all collide.” – Ben Dueholm reviews @robertpbaird.com www.christiancentury.org/books/aura-e...

It’s nice to be read, but an honor to be read well. I’m so grateful for this review of THE NIMBUS, one of the more perceptive considerations the book has gotten, by Benjamin J. Dueholm in the November issue of @christiancentury.bsky.social. www.christiancentury.org/books/aura-e...

“Flannery O’Connor made room for me to wrestle, room for doubt, for the idea that grace might move even when belief gets messy.” – Colin Cutler, in an interview by Amy Alznauer www.christiancentury.org/interviews/m...

“Gilead reads as confrontational against today’s wave of performative religiosity. Neither mawkish nor moralizing, the novel is now subversive (whatever Robinson intended two decades ago).” – Ibrahim N. Abusharif www.christiancentury.org/features/rev...

“In his magnificent new book, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social shows how, when it comes to rivers, our purportedly rational minds have become impounded, even stagnant.” – review by @nwirzba.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/river-...

“what flourish, his feathery / sensor so elegantly engineered / it must be heaven-made” – from Suzanne Underwood Rhodes’s new poem: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/simpl...

As lawless gangs of ICE agents terrorize city neighborhoods, it’s getting harder to maintain that the United States is a democracy. From the Century editors. www.christiancentury.org/editors/faci...

“I’m a pastor, a profession in which most assessments depend upon whether or not other people show up to church, how much money they give, and how they feel about you—that is, things you can’t control.” – Julian DeShazier www.christiancentury.org/voices/pasto...

“I thought a lot about Cordelia from King Lear as I read about the more than 145 people fired over social media posts about the gruesome murder of Charlie Kirk.” – Mac Loftin www.christiancentury.org/features/man...

Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and thoroughly punk. Review by Thomas R. Gaulke: www.christiancentury.org/books/punk-d... @tandtclark.bsky.social

“It was Peterson’s insistence that we live and minister as if God is real. He is the person who taught me, at long last, to pray. I did not need to agree with everything he thought, even about some things that matter a great deal, to be grateful on an eternal scale.” – Katherine Willis Pershey

“There’s no need—ever—for a swollen federal agency with a settled internal culture of sadism, secrecy, deception, and racial profiling, an agency that understands itself to operate under no legal or moral constraints, to exist at all.” – @philipchristman.bsky.social

“Thanks to authors like Rebecca Brenner Graham, everyday Americans are increasingly seeing Frances Perkins as a role model who confirms their desire to change the world for the better.” – review by Charles Hoffacker www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...

“There were a thousand protesters there, but there was no violence and no riot. This was not an angry mob, just a bunch of regular people who have jobs and families and busy lives.” – Tom Montgomery Fate

“Stewart Home’s research suggests that practicing yoga with certain expectations might predispose you to fascism—because many ideologies associated with fascism are also woven into the rhetoric around yoga.” – Review by @rbratten.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/what-d...

“Cultural anthropologist Johannes Fabian’s work on knowledge deepens my reflection on Psalm 62. I begin to see how much my faith rests on insecure, untested knowledge—knowledge as possession.” – Peter Choi www.christiancentury.org/article/what...

“I wish I better understood what it is inside me that allows me to extend my empathy so easily to a smart device or a piece of fruit but leaves me reluctant to do so when I encounter a homeless person on the street.” – @daultradio.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/par...

Denominations often struggle to separate faith from ethnicity. Hyung Jin Kim Sun has experienced this firsthand. Celeste Kennel-Shank reviews Building Mennonite Belonging (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social): www.christiancentury.org/books/mennon...

According to @crbernasol.bsky.social, prayer has been misused by the nationalist right and written off by the activist left. He chats with @jonmathieu.bsky.social about how he is trying to reclaim it in his own faith. youtu.be/G8nwZoNVvWw

“Perhaps the sheer difficulty of silence indicates it is one of our deepest vocations.” – @revrachelmann.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/silen...

“There were paid positions in local churches, and the men wanted those positions—so they wanted to shut the women up. But martyrdom was a public role that continued to be open to women like Perpetua.” – Sarah Ruden, in an interview by Lilia Ellis www.christiancentury.org/interviews/i...

I wrote a review of Ross Kane's The Good News of Church Politics for the Christian Century. It's an accessible read, and good for church folks who are trying to live together well in a moment that feels overwhelming.

“The exhibition Coverings comprises several textile goods in the form of purses, scarves, shawls, corded fringed belts—all made of recycled plastic.” – art commentary from Maria Fee, about Noemia Marinho’s Gleaning Project: www.christiancentury.org/art/noemia-m...

“Ross Kane asserts that the work of my church council is politics and assures me that it is both necessary and a source of good news—for our congregation and the world.” – review by @laura-e-alex.bsky.social @eerdmansbooks.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/reclai...

“Through their carefully chosen language, Cardinal Dolan and President Trump placed Charlie Kirk within this lineage of missionaries and pastors persecuted for their faith . . .” – @dwcongdon.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/yes...

“Given the general confusion about the institution of marriage in our wider culture—with the rise of polyamory on the one hand and trad wives on the other—I was initially excited to see what the doubleheader of The Roses and Splitsville could offer our popular imagination.” – Kathryn Reklis

“Even though I have tried to define myself against Pentecostalism for much of my adult life, I have always been attracted to the fierce gratitude at the center of my family’s life of prayer and how it opened them to the world.” – @crbernasol.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/features/pen...

“In his magnificent new book, @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social shows how, when it comes to rivers, our purportedly rational minds have become impounded, even stagnant.” – review by @nwirzba.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/books/river-...

“I want archaeologists in hundreds of years to excavate and dig and search for love. ‘Here lies Sarah: Crushed under the immense weight of care and love,’ my gravestone would read.” – Sarah Fryman, one of the winners in our Readers Write contest www.christiancentury.org/readers-writ...

“As Kathleen Norris described and uncovered each new facet of acedia, I nodded along—yes, I knew this feeling, yes, I was mired in it.” – @olivalejandra.bsky.social www.christiancentury.org/voices/my-su...