My teacher, Shinkyu Brian Coté, explained: “In Sanskrit, dve is ‘two.’ Satya is ‘truth, reality, things as they are.’ ...

Beauty is to the spirit what food is to the flesh. A glimpse of it in a young face, say, or an echo of it in a song fills an ...

In Charlotte Wood’s novel, an atheist is driven by climate despair to an isolated convent, where she grapples with layers ...

C. J. Surbaugh is a writer and librarian living in Durham, North Carolina. From theological reflections to breaking religion ...

What I don’t feel is entitlement. She did not owe me or anyone else the suffering that it took to bring us into the world. As a Christian and a human rights advocate, I begin with the premise that ...

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

Nearly three dozen Anglicans and Episcopalians representing Indigenous cultures from around the world have gathered in the ...

I had been thinking about fabric, its shelter and its comfort, since attending a conference last fall. The theme was ...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America elected its first Black leader on Wednesday at its churchwide assembly meeting in ...

When the dog sinksher dull teethinto the downof the rabbit,we sayShe must have really wanted that one.Blood lust, we call it.Carnal.Both the meat& the pain it suffered—Tender.Raw.Oh, we moan.We ...

It’s beautiful, he explains, recounting the tenderness he witnesses as commonplace there. It may be hard to quantify, but it ...

Powerful wordsI don’t think I have ever read a century editorial as clear-cut and cogent in calling a political party to account as the July offering (“Worse than doing nothing”). It is too bad that ...