Nancy Bedford

Jul 10, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Ross Kane |Philip Jenkins |Nancy Bedford |Elva K. Österreich

Update: The removed icons have been returned as posted on the Mescalero Apache Tribe Facebook page: "It is with profound joy that we announce that the paintings taken from St. Joseph's Apache Mission have been returned to the tribe and will be returned to their locations in the church."On June 30, parishioners and guests walked into St. Joseph’s Apache Mission in Mescalero, New Mexico, for the 10:30 a.m. mass as they have done for close to 100 years.

Jul 10, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Ben Goldfarb |Ross Kane |Philip Jenkins |Nancy Bedford

As an urban planner, I seek to make my city more livable for people. This includes work to mitigate some of the adverse effects of cars by making streets safer for walking and cycling, reducing the amount of land consumed by parking spaces, and decreasing the carbon emissions of the transportation sector. I have to admit, though, that I’ve spent almost no time in my job thinking about the impacts of cars on animals.

Jul 10, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Jamel Brinkley |Ross Kane |Philip Jenkins |Nancy Bedford

The Los Angeles Times asks, “Is Jamel Brinkley the best short-story writer of his generation?” He could be. He teaches fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; his first story collection, A Lucky Man, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and his second, Witness, has garnered excellent press. His characters, who are almost always people of color, strike me as quite new.

Jul 9, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Nancy Bedford |Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |Philip Jenkins |David P. Gushee

When I walked across the threshold into what Susan Sontag called “the kingdom of the sick,” I held the belief that the imago Dei was a metaphor that set humans apart and demonstrated God’s love for us. Now a small relative of mine, a transgenic lab mouse known as OncoMouse, is demolishing that understanding of what it means to be human. OncoMouse shatters all the traditional boundaries I’ve held so dear: human/nonhuman, nature/culture, artificial/natural.

Jul 8, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Nancy Bedford |Marilyn Chandler McEntyre |Philip Jenkins |David P. Gushee

An El Paso, Texas, district court judge ruled July 2 that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had violated the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable government searches and seizures, in his targeting of Annunciation House, a network of nonprofit Catholic migrant shelters.