
Isaac S. Villegas
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4 weeks ago |
christiancentury.org | Katherine A. Shaner |Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake
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. Revelation can be a terrifying book of the Bible to encounter in the Easter season. We usually think about it as a doom and gloom kind of book. That is until a child, bleating like a sheep, reminds us what it is all about.
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1 month ago |
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Isaac S. Villegas |Jesse Hake |Cait West
The card holders on the long dining room table offered guidance to the women assembled around it: “Keep it Constitutional” and “Keep it Kind.” With those themes in mind, about 10 women, using beige or light blue fabric pieces and colorful markers, sat down to craft messages to their state representative or senator: “Checks and balances are vital to protect the power of Congress.” “We the People” “Rule of law for all” “Everyone deserves due process” Their 10×10 fabric pieces were later...
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2 months ago |
christiancentury.org | Heather McTeer Toney |Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Isaac S. Villegas
“How in the world are Black folks supposed to talk about climate change when we have other pressing issues to deal with? How and better yet, why?” Heather McTeer Toney’s opening questions cut to the chase: How is climate change relevant to Black Americans who already face daily challenges to survival? In a nation where every Black family knows the stakes of getting home before the streetlights come on, this is a legitimate question.
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Jan 27, 2025 |
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Brian Bantum |Brandon Ambrosino |Isaac S. Villegas
My church’s order of worship includes a time to ask for prayer. During a service several months ago, as people passed the microphone from row to row for congregants to make their requests, I decided to raise my hand for a turn to share. I’d been suffering from a health condition that baffled doctors. I spoke up to ask my community to pray for me. There, as part of our worship, my community held my concerns in their prayers, entrusting my well-being into God’s care. We need each other.
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Nov 21, 2024 |
christiancentury.org | Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain |Isaac S. Villegas
Buried in the foreword to Project 2025’s “Mandate for Leadership,” the not-quite-disavowed blueprint for the incoming Trump administration, is a strange reference to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. “Open-borders activism,” the document declares, is “a classic example of what the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called ‘cheap grace.’” Bonhoeffer is then invoked to denounce other excesses of the left, such as environmental extremism and insufficient hostility to China.
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