Zeeya Merali is a science writer and author of A Big Bang in a Little Room. She also edits the Foundational Questions ...

Lilia Ellis is the Century ’s editorial intern. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, ...

The practice of reading is not what it once was. In this age of information, adults in the United States read fewer books with each passing year, and for many, reading has become synonymous with the ...

The same ancestral convictions that call me also block me. This is the rub, the pain and fracture that mark my heritage. This is the gap I stand in, between blessing and brokenness. Who do you bring ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby will resign under pressure for his delayed response to extensive and devastating ...

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Lordship and kingship, of course, are problematic terms. To be lord is to be master, which is to be superior in respect to ...

Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by ...

The lyric Lennon sings is about needing help; the music celebrates finding it. He is not alone. He has help. The Good News is ...

In her right hand she clutches red and purple wildflowers, her flaxen hair tumbling from its bun, her slender fingers laced in his burly fingers, trying to knit one understanding between them as they ...

Augustine once described the difference between our experience of time and God’s experience as the feeling of being stretched ...

She is the cohost of the Encountering Silence podcast, and the creator of the Contemplating Now and Queering Contemplation podcasts. Her films include In Pursuit of Silence and Day of a Stranger. Her ...