Alea Peister is a copywriter at a marketing firm. She recently received her MFA in spiritual writing from Seattle ...

St. Teresa of Ávila (1515–1582) has gone down in Christian history as a philosopher, mystic, and leader at a time when such ...

Powered Divine Chats.” Options include “Text Jesus,” which allows you to chat with the members of the Holy Family, each of ...

What does it mean to be an inclusive church? Being a community means welcoming those with diverse views, not cocooning oneself with like-minded people.

Father William Hart McNichols (he/him) is widely known as one of the world’s most gifted iconographers. A former Jesuit and student of Franciscan iconographer Robert Lentz, Fr. Bill’s icons have been ...

Remembering WalterJason Edwards’s eulogy of Walter Brueggemann was eloquent and profound—almost good enough for Walter (“Walter Brueggemann’s gift of disruption,” August).—Terree NewberryGray, ...

I’m sure there are good uses for AI in our churches. Prayer and preaching aren’t ...

I was taught to stay on guard against the left’s postmodernism. Now it’s the right that seems unwilling to look truth ...

Anna Rollins is the author of Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl (Eerdmans, 2025). From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...

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

Wilkinson’s book—completed shortly before his death in 2023—is a response to a 2013 request from Billy Frank Jr. (Nisqually), ...