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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and ...

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

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

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