Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and the oldest surviving president in American history, died December ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, was known most as the 39th president of the United States. But he also will be ...

Lisa A. Smith is a Lutheran minister and director for evangelical mission for the Alaska Synod of the ELCA. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The name of this magazine denotes its founders’ enthusiasm at the dawn of the 20th century for the Protestant missionary enterprise, which, the theory went, would soon convert whole sections of the ...

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