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1 week 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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1 week ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West |Rachel Mann
A gathering for people interested in creation care issues took place April 25-26 in Topeka, Kansas, and was sponsored by the Episcopal Grasslands Network, the first eco-region created by legislation passed during the 2024 general convention. The event drew 134 registrants from 35 dioceses across the Episcopal Church, and about half of them attended in person. It also attracted 22 people who indicated they were not Episcopalians, including some who had no religious affiliation.
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West |Rachel Mann
Prominent pastor and anti-poverty activist William Barber and two others were arrested while praying in the US Capitol Rotunda on Monday, an action he said would be part of a recurring series of demonstrations aimed at challenging the Republican-led budget bill.
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West |Rachel Mann
Century illustration (Source images: Public domain and Met Museum, NY) Resurrection is supposed to mean a new world. Easter is supposed to mark a new beginning, a new creation—the old passing away, all things reborn. How do the first disciples respond to Christ’s triumph over death? They return to the humdrum of their jobs. They go fishing. At the end of John’s Gospel, we find the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. Peter says he’s going fishing, and the others reply, “We will go with you” (21:3).
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Richard Powers |Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West
Midway through Playground, oceanographer Evelyne (Evie) Beaulieu dives off Truk Atoll in the central Pacific in order to photograph the debris of a sunken World War II ship.
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Rachel Mann |Cait West
In 1956, Marquette University purchased the original manuscripts of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings for less than $5,000. At the time, no other institution had shown interest in J. R. R. Tolkien’s manuscripts. Thirteen years later, United Artists bought the movie rights from Tolkien for $240,000. Fast-forward to 2017, when Amazon paid a staggering $250 million for the rights to create TV adaptations.
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West |Rachel Mann
Pope Francis greets the crowd gathered in St. Peter’s Square during his weekly general audience at the Vatican in 2017 (AP Photo / Alessandra Tarantino).
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2 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Cait West |Rachel Mann
Thomas is my favorite apostle. I gotta love a guy who, regardless of the niceties of the situation, when offered the opportunity will thrust his hand smack-dab into the side of the risen Lord because he needs to experience a God who is real. I’m certainly a big believer in doubt, which qualifies me as both a progressive Christian and a conventionally faithful one. But I don’t think doubt adequately describes Thomas’s problem, nor does reassurance adequately describe his solution.
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3 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Adelle M. Banks |Mac Loftin |Rachel Mann |Clint Schnekloth
Shipshewana, Indiana, is home to fewer than a thousand people and the Midwest’s largest flea market. It only takes a few minutes to drive its main street, bordered by signs advertising Amish furniture stores and locally made meats and cheeses. The town has all the makings of a Lifetime Christmas movie: historic houses, quaint shops that close by 5 p.m., and a beautiful landscape of farm fields and wooden barns.
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3 weeks ago | 
christiancentury.org | Paola Ramos |Mac Loftin |Brandon Ambrosino |Hojung Lee
I was a Spanish interpreter at a poll site in a majority Latino neighborhood during the 2020 presidential election. Throughout the day I helped a wide range of Spanish-speaking citizens exercise their civic duty—Americans of all ages and genders, bearing the full spectrum of skin complexions, living out what it means when we say we are a nation of immigrants. I was surprised both by how smoothly everything went and by how many average citizens it takes to make our democracy work.
