Christian Century

The Christian Century is a prominent Christian magazine located in Chicago, Illinois. It is recognized as the leading publication for mainline Protestantism in the United States. This biweekly magazine covers religious news, discusses theological, moral, and cultural topics, and provides reviews of books, films, and music. On its website, you can find blogs by contributors such as Drew Hart, Carol Howard Merritt, Elizabeth Palmer, and Daniel Camacho, as well as collaborations with over 100 guest bloggers.

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The wild earth and its consolations: A review of The Mourner’s Bestiary | The Christian Century

1 week ago | christiancentury.org | Mark Devries

The Mourner’s Bestiary is part memoir, part illness narrative, and part ecological...
Lectionary essay for April 13 Passion C Isaiah 50 4 9a Psalm 31 9 16 Luke 23 1 49

2 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

They “stood at a distance, watching.” This detail in Luke’s Gospel haunts me: how Jesus’ friends and followers, including the women who have journeyed with him from Galilee, can do nothing but witness his suffering from afar. The sense of powerlessness they must feel, maybe even shame, is something we all have perhaps experienced at one moment or another. Today, we have more access than ever to witness atrocities. What does one do with such powerlessness?
Abyssinian Baptist Church welcomes dismissal of pastor candidate's discrimination suit

2 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

A federal judge has dismissed a gender discrimination lawsuit brought against Abyssinian Baptist Church by a onetime candidate to be the historic Harlem church’s senior pastor, the sole female candidate among finalists for the role. Eboni Marshall Turman, an associate professor at Yale Divinity School, filed the complaint in 2023.
Poems that help us breathe together

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

In her charming introduction to this anthology, US poet laureate Ada Limón suggests that poems and trees “let us breathe together.” This comment calls to mind priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “God’s Grandeur,” which notes a rejuvenating spirit infusing the world—“nature is never spent; / There lives the dearest freshness deep down things”—as well as Jesuit theologian and scientist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin’s phrase “the breathing together of all things.” The anthology subtitle’s...
American hell

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Mark Glanville

On April 4, 1968, hours before his assassination, from room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Martin Luther King Jr. phoned the office at Ebenezer Baptist Church back home in Atlanta.
Ten Commandments, zero context

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Peter W. Marty |Brian D. McLaren |David Dault

The Texas Senate has approved a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms in public schools. This follows hard on the heels of a similar bill in Louisiana that is presently tied up in the judicial system. These initiatives seem likely to race each other to the US Supreme Court. It is understandable, in some ways, that many Christian policymakers want this text from the Hebrew Bible displayed in the spaces where their children are educated.
Lectionary essay for April 6 Lent 5C John 12 1 8

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Peter W. Marty |Brian D. McLaren |David Dault

I’ve lived a majority of my life in the American South, and to me, our food is sacred: ribbons of wilted leafy greens specked with onion, fresh-picked field peas singing of summer sun, and peaches that drip sweet abundance down our chins. I can imagine my ancestors–some of whom were enslaved people–enjoyed these southern staples too, especially during times of celebration.
A Hebrew scholar rekindles her love for classic Bible stories

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |David Dault |Fleming Rutledge |Samuel Wells

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings of the Bible and offer liberatory alternatives. Within such a landscape, it can be hard for a new book to stand out. But Eve Isn’t Evil is a gift.
New film tells story of Audrey Evans, Episcopalian doctor who co-founded Ronald McDonald House

3 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Peter W. Marty |Brian D. McLaren |Liz Charlotte Grant

Audrey’s Children, a feature-length biopic about Audrey Evans, a pioneering British American pediatric oncologist and a devout Episcopalian who co-founded Ronald McDonald House Charities with members of the Philadelphia Eagles and McDonald’s, will have a limited theatrical release beginning March 28.
What's the Bible for in seven words? Reggie Williams: "Telling us about people following God" | The Christian Century

4 weeks ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |Peter W. Marty |Brian D. McLaren |Liz Charlotte Grant

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. Telling us about people following GodThe Bible is a witness and guide to communities of people who believe they have heard from God and thus have a unique relationship with God.