A new edited volume seeks not to replace traditional, White male–focused theopoetics so much as to reshape the ...

He put spit in the man’s eyes, laid hands on him, and asked, “Do you       see anything?” He looked up. “I see men. They look ...

So why on earth are students signing up to endure the discomforts of the classroom, the precarity of their job markets, and ...

As we consider the inauguration of a new president and the prospect of an unchecked authoritarian regime, many Christians are warily seeking the rationale for a life of faith in a changed political ...

It is not overly dramatic to say that teaching can be a matter of life and death when it is done in the face of endangerment and affliction to thwart debilitating injustice. The Black ...

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Students protesting the war in Gaza are asking deep questions about colonialism, antisemitism, and Christian Zionism.

All theology is contextual. The oldest law book in Iceland, Grágás, which emerged sometime between the ninth and 13th centuries, preserves an instruction for emergency baptism when traveling with a ...

I cannot count the times that I have been asked what it means for us to be Christian in times like these. Ours is a time when far too many of God’s children are subjected to conditions that foster ...

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

The 2024 Netflix drama Joy tells the story of Jean Purdy, a British nurse and embryologist, who in 1968 comes to interview with the physiologist Robert Edwards at his lab in Cambridge. Edwards wants ...