Dietrich Bonhoeffer didn’t choose to be a martyr. He simply tried, as many others did, to be decent in the face ...

Like her genre foremothers, the teen sleuth in A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder isn’t just solving a crime, she’s figuring out ...

A congregation that wants to be engaged in creation care has many things it can do—pollinator gardens, solar panels, energy audits, legislative advocacy, recycling, composting—but Rachel Field, part ...

In the language of the teacher, we want everyone else’s season—a time to weep, a time to break down, a time to tear, a time ...

These two stories—of the Norths, their neighbors, and their congregation, Friendship Baptist; and of the White members and ...

one Sunday when my daughter held to the glass a sign she’d made: I love you God. Then she, too, lived within a story all her ...

To give ourselves to silence in worship is to wait for the Spirit of God who gives us rest.

Theoretical physicist Abhay Ashtekar is famous for having worked on an idea for how space-time itself is generated. So we ...

A Vietnamese man who became a social media sensation as he walked around the country promoting the virtues of an ascetic way ...

Lilia Ellis is the Century ’s editorial intern. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, ...

The practice of reading is not what it once was. In this age of information, adults in the United States read fewer books with each passing year, and for many, reading has become synonymous with the ...