Jerry Harp teaches at Lewis and Clark College. His most recent book is Spirit Under Construction. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's ...

On the Piazza della Signoria,under the gaze of Michelangelo’s David(a decent copy rather), among the crowds,a horse-drawn carriage or two, afternoon sunassaulting the air, an English bulldog madehis ...

At youth group and church camp, I learned to perform my own unworthiness. It took years to recognize the spiritual harm ...

God sends manna because God cares for the human needs, because God’s love matters for our lives. To talk about care is to get ...

For years, conservative legal groups have argued that an IRS rule barring churches from endorsing candidates was ...

Open heartsI read Peter Marty’s column about Eden Murphy, a teenager born with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, with an ache in ...

But often it’s through unexpected juxtapositions that Monteiro evokes life’s mysteries. So, for instance, the poem “Solomon ...

Richard Price’s latest novel follows four characters, each affected by the collapse of a tenement building in ...

Amelia Schafer is the Indigenous affairs reporter for ICT. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the ...

McKenzie Watson-Fore is a writer, an artist, and executive editor of sneaker wave magazine. From theological reflections to ...

JohnThe tree bore fruit for one summer only.A cluster of kumquats grew like a tumor in the heart;the branches couldn’t hold more than one year’s yield,each fruit as orange as the last morningI held my ...

For our brother LouWe always knew we would lose you.The youngest child in a gaggle of cousins,at two you wandered down the beach,I am the Boss embossed on the bottomof your toddler-size bathing ...