When her mother died late last year, Episcopal bishop Mariann Edgar Budde described her as “a woman of deep faith and courage ...

I stopped dressing up for church. Until then my typical Sunday outfit consisted of either one of my better dresses or a skirt ...

Two Iranian Christian asylum-seekers were arrested by masked federal agents in Los Angeles on June 24, days after a wider ...

Gina Burkhart is associate pastor of Landisville Mennonite Church in Landisville, Pennsylvania. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's ...

Long’s discovery led to a fresh awareness: the power of parables is “the kingdom of God to which they refer.” Parables do ...

A House investigation launched by two Republican congressmen into dozens of religious organizations and denominations, from ...

That summer I was a field education student at a small Mennonite church in north Philadelphia, completing an internship ...

Jimmy Thorn was counting on a retirement spent enjoying time with and providing support for the next generations of his ...

Kirsch suggests that as the theory of settler colonialism developed, what began as a tool to distinguish between forms of ...

The church is not the chaplaincy of empire. The church is the body of Christ. The church does not serve the interests of ...

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

The tree is not coming back, the arborist said,                  thanks to the pine bark beetles that                        ...