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Dec 6, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Catherine Healy |Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett
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. In 1882, Barcelona’s Catholic bishop laid the cornerstone for the historic Basilica of the Holy Family, best known by its Spanish name: Sagrada Familia. The next year, architect Antoni Gaudi took over the project.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mosab Abu Toha |Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett
“In the particular is the universal,” said James Joyce. In Forest of Noise, the particular is the Israel-Hamas war and the suffering of the Gazans, as recorded by the award-winning poet Mosab Abu Toha. He told his harrowing story of capture by the Israel Defense Forces and eventual release in the New Yorker, and one of the poems in this collection retells that story.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins
When I was a child, a few weeks before Christmas each year my family would gather with friends and neighbors at a nearby barn. The barn was home to gentle trail-ride horses, a Shetland pony known for its bite, and a scattering of sheep, goats, and rabbits that made up a petting zoo. On the floor of the barn, hay bales would be arranged as seats, centered around a wooden rack. Us children would don towels on our heads cinched with neckties, along with bathrobes cut to fit our small frames.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins
Elon Musk speaks as part of a campaign town hall in support of Donald Trump in Folsom, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) In the waning days of October, several hundred people gathered at the Life Center, a megachurch in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a town hall organized by the Trump campaign. Attendees chatted excitedly as they filed into the church’s cavernous sanctuary.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Sharon Brous |Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett
The promise of what Sharon Brous calls “the amen effect” is an end to social isolation, an end to hiding from heartache. It is the regeneration of caring relations and the will to be present when people are suffering. Brous is a leader at the junction of faith and justice in the United States.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins
Views of the Borgo Laudato Sì project at the Pontifical Villas's Gardens in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, November 27. (RNS photo/Claire Giangravé) Pope Francis’s plan to build an eco-village in the historic gardens of Castel Gandolfo, the summer residence of the popes, will be complete for the 2025 Jubilee, allowing pilgrims and tourists to participate in an immersive experience of “ecological conversion,” organizers said.
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Catherine Healy |Mac Loftin |Victoria Barnett |Reggie L. Williams
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. Be alert; a righteous branch is springing up before our eyes. A few miles from my home on the South Side of Chicago lie the remains of the old South Works steel mill. For more than a century, South Works employed thousands of people and provided steel beams for the city’s skyscrapers.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Victoria Barnett |Reggie L. Williams |Jack Jenkins
Welcome to Madang. Madang is the outdoor living room of the world. Here, we invite you to sit and tune into unreserved, remarkable conversations with renowned authors, leaders, public figures, and scholars on religion, culture, and everything in between. This is the 44th Episode, a discussion with Peter Enns about his newest book, Curveball, and it was recorded live at Homebrewed Christianity Theology Beer Camp. Enns is the Abram S. Clemens Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Reggie L. Williams |Victoria Barnett |Jack Jenkins
Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, I was not allowed to listen to secular music—or to any music that did not explicitly point to Jesus Christ and reflect “biblical values.” Heavy metal, in particular, was considered evil, food for the flesh that would destroy my Christian spirit. Then, when I was ten years old, my uncle shared a DVD of music videos, This Is Solid State, Volume 4, from the Christian metal label Solid State Records.
