The Buechner Narrative Writing Project honors the life and legacy of writer and theologian Frederick Buechner with the aim of ...

As preachers consider their response to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a sermon from the Gilded Age ...

Not until the Christmas they were in kindergarten and second grade. With the December scholastic film festival concluded, my ...

The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were ...

Lesley Finn is an award-winning writer and visual artist. She teaches at Yale University and the Center for Fiction in ...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, is nowhere near Lemon Tree Mound.So, it was something of a surprise a ...

On Good Friday 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. and 50 others were charged with violating a court order against mass demonstrations. He was arrested and taken to the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, where ...

Alan Jay Levinovitz is a professor of religion at James Madison University and the author, most recently, of Natural: How ...

Stepping forward to receive the host, I spread out my palms before I remember these aide memoires inscribed in black biro, blots not quite scrubbed away. The leftnow sat awkwardly in right ...

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Clare Bryden is a writer, artist, and consultant from the United Kingdom. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you ...