Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, I was not allowed to listen to secular music—or to any music that did not ...

Jack Holloway is founder and creative director of Morbid Instinct, a film and music production collective and record label, and author of Hands of Doom: The Apocalyptic Imagination of ...

There are pragmatic reasons that the expanding field of Christian transgender nonfiction overwhelmingly features memoirs. There is so little for trans people in the church, and memoir can be a ...

As a therapist specializing in trauma, I am wary of encountering it outside the office. But I was drawn into Post-Traumatic Jesus from the very first sentence, in which the author reveals himself as a ...

I have served on the pastoral staff of First Congregational Church of Western Springs for more than a dozen years. In that time, I’ve heard my colleague Rich recount the origin of our sanctuary dozens ...

What more can we say about evangelicalism? This is the perennial question for religious scholars of the past decade. While ...

It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s ...

The paradox of a slim book is that it can be dense. The weight of the words feels more significant, heavier, when there are ...

The squatters’ area was populated by people who had moved from rural areas in northern Argentina to find better work in the ...

Catherine Healy is an Episcopal priest in Chicago. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you covered. Since 1900, the ...

Barbara Ann Holmes was a spiritual visionary who perceived deeper, broader, and wider than those around her. She brought new conversation partners into ongoing discussions, with a constant eye toward ...

My decades of church life have been full of the stuff one might expect from a place that promises God and only ...