One highlight of the year was a busy week in a cabin with three friends and a dog.

My 20-second microdrama showed me life’s fragility and apparent randomness, but also life’s choice: choice to despoil and ...

Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs ...

I see it from my back window, the one overlooking trees in the summer, bare branches in the winter.It’s not a small house but so far away it seems matchbox size, at night illuminated by a single ...

Emily Conroy-Krutz chronicles the complex relationship between Protestant missionaries and the US Foreign Service in the ...

Cortney Davis, a registered nurse, is the author of five poetry collections. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you ...

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We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war.

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