One highlight of the year was a busy week in a cabin with three friends and a dog.

I see it from my back window, the one overlooking trees in the summer, bare branches in the winter.It’s not a small house but so far away it seems matchbox size, at night illuminated by a single ...

Rebecca McCarthy traces Norman Maclean’s poetic sensibilities from his University of Chicago classroom to A River Runs ...

My 20-second microdrama showed me life’s fragility and apparent randomness, but also life’s choice: choice to despoil and ...

Cortney Davis, a registered nurse, is the author of five poetry collections. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you ...

Emily Conroy-Krutz chronicles the complex relationship between Protestant missionaries and the US Foreign Service in the ...

A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last week will play a key role in preserving the Tibetan language amid China’s ...

We refer routinely to “Paul’s Letter to the Philippians” or “the Gospel of Luke,” and most Christians today assume that Paul and Luke were the authors of these works. Countless paintings throughout ...

You say in God’s Ghostwriters that your process as a historian involves reading into the gaps. You call it a form of history telling that is imaginative and not untrue. Why do you approach your ...

We have become a society of people who cannot prevent our own children from being killed in their classrooms—and who do not much mind the killing of other people’s children by weapons of war. Candida ...

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A new 223-volume Tibetan dictionary containing definitions of over 300,000 words presented to the Library of Congress last week will play a key role in preserving the Tibetan language amid China’s ...