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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 | 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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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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Jan 13, 2025 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Phil Christman |Wendell Berry |Rachel Mann
If you have been paying even the lightest attention to public discourse, you will know that trans people are hurting right now. When I transitioned back in 1993, the traditional media in both the United Kingdom and the United States barely mentioned us, except for occasional mockery. We were just too hidden. Then trans people grew in confidence, and things got better for us. I thought it would just keep going that way. It has not.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Claire Giangrave |Brandon Ambrosino |Rachel Mann
(Illustration: Studio M1 / iStock / Getty) What role does friendship play in a flourishing community? I ask this as a person who was raised to believe that, as the title of a Kacey Musgraves song has it, family is family—that it is the primary set of relationships that won’t let you down. Even if this simply reveals the extent to which I grew up in the UK equivalent of the boondocks, I still hold a hunch that family units (in their wonderfully rich varieties) trump friendships.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
thetablet.co.uk | Rachel Mann
An Anglican priest and poet explores poetry of faith, ghosts and the fragility of being human in a fickle world. Seamus Heaney said that poetry has never been fully secularised. I read this as meaning it is haunted by the ghosts of faith. Some poets embrace these spectres. Consider Camille Ralphs’ disconcertingly accomplished debut, After You Were, I Am (Faber, £12.99; Tablet price £11.69).
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Amy Frykholm |Yolanda Pierce |E. Heath |Rachel Mann
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