Cobb envisioned theology as a force for transformation. He believed theology was not about abstract speculation or ...

Wm. Andrew Schwartz teaches at Claremont School of Theology, where he serves as executive director of the Center for ...

Sometimes the harm caused by breaking a promise is less than the harm caused by keeping it.

When Mississippi seceded from the Union in 1861, its Declaration of the Immediate Causes proclaimed the absolute necessity of ...

After his 1980 defeat, Carter devoted himself to the causes of a progressive evangelicalism that has all but disappeared from ...

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 ...

Jeremiah 31:7-14 or Sirach 24:1-12 (Psalm 147:12-20 or Wisdom of Solomon 10:15-21); Ephesians 1:3-14; John 1:(1-9), 10-18 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...