Daniel Schultz

Feb 12, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Elizabeth Felicetti |Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Philip Jenkins

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. When I’m working on my laptop I usually use a Bible website instead of opening a print Bible, exposing me to newer translations than those I’ve had in my house or office for decades.

Feb 12, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Philip Jenkins |Mary Clark Moschella

British photographer, writer, and volunteer Alex Holmes frequently spends his free time at the impromptu Eritrean refugee camp in Calais, France, where he talks with the young men gathered there. These men have escaped from what the Global Slavery Index calls the “highest prevalence of modern slavery across Africa (and the second in the world).” They are trying to get to the United Kingdom, where they believe there is hope for a better life.

Feb 9, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Philip Jenkins |Mary Clark Moschella

Settling into more of a country life in retirement, my husband and I planted 50 daffodil bulbs. As a first-time daffodil planter, I did my research and decided that the “weatherproof large-cupped daffodil mix” would be the ideal bulbs.

Feb 9, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Daniel Schultz |Debie Thomas |Philip Jenkins |Mary Clark Moschella

To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Paul tells us that if the “gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing.” John Calvin and other Reformers took eagerly to this idea, encouraging and even demanding a laity well-informed about the content and meaning of scripture.

Feb 8, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Philip Jenkins |Debie Thomas |Daniel Schultz |Mary Clark Moschella

After 16 years of ordained ministry, my Ash Wednesday experiences were vast and varied: imposing ashes on newborns in their mothers’ arms at the rail next to nonagenarians, the difference in their skins’ elasticity poignant. I imposed ashes on a young man in the hospital right before he was moved to palliative care.