Nicole Schrag teaches English and writing at the University of Tampa. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you covered.

Meggan Watterson finds in the Acts of Paul and Thecla a seven-step journey for personal growth.

One Battle After Another makes no argument for the “right” sort of revolutionary action. It’s more concerned with the ...

Yet I’d rarely given thought to the grammar of our faith, to how bound up language is in our ability to have hope during what feel like hopeless times, until recently. That is, until I had a spiritual ...

On March 17, 1966, farmworkers marched to Sacramento in a procession replete with Stations of the Cross. Jeannine Hill Fletcher seeks to foreground them and others whose land, labor, and lives were ...

Debbie Hines draws on her legal career in Baltimore to show what redemption looks like in practice.

I pointed congregations to the Phoenix Affirmations, a set of statements articulated at a 2006 mainline Protestant gathering and later published by pastor and biblical scholar Eric Elnes. I suggested ...

In her third book on trust, Teresa Morgan argues that it is what empowers us to turn away from wrongdoing and suffering and ...

But a quick look through scripture shows that following the sacred story of God’s involvement in our world is not without a ...

Samuel Martin teaches high school English and is author of When the Dead Are Razed: A Novel. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's ...

Rebecca Bratten Weiss finds treasures in the ruins of Christian literary classics. But first, the idols need to ...

I wasn’t sure about the MDiv,” says Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, a chaplain and pastor in St. Paul, Minnesota. “But in Ferguson, I ...