Then she walks us through icon after icon, illuminating both the biblical texts and the icons that deepen moments in the ...

Art that encourages hope. Raed Issa is an artist in Gaza, a Palestinian father of four desperately clinging to hope. Cobbling ...

What will be God’s,” asks Tertullian, “if all things are Caesar’s?” It’s a challenging question at a time when the state is ...

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

A few years ago, I came across a book called Worship Across the Racial Divide. Its chapter titles were arresting: “African Americans as the Icon of ‘True Worship,’” “The Naïve Experience of Worship in ...

Then one day at lunch, he turned to Bill Dever and asked, “Where is that girl from Andover?” Bill said, “Oh Phyllis? She’s ...

Like the surveillance state, the Christ Pantocrator icon asserts an omnipresent authority. But it also asserts divine mercy ...

The flowers in the garden lob their last bit of loveliness as America totters toward anotherelection, requiring yet another ...

We fell asleep reciting modest prayers.No one would ask for our deliveranceOutright, to have the age-old mortal plotUpended ...

Richard Rohr begs readers to journey from anger to sadness to compassionate love.

Since Muslim Americans vocally opposed President Joe Biden’s embrace of Israel after the October 7 Hamas attacks, who they ...

I celebrate the milestone of the first woman to become archbishop of Canterbury. But I worry there’s a glass cliff waiting ...