To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century ..read more

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. Connecting God’s people across millennia through story ..read more

Your old friend is scattering the ashes of her grandson into the lake where he liked to swim before fentanyl and his furtive night life, as you, speechless, consider Brueghel and that boy’s legs engulfed by the sea, all that’s left of his bravado, that precipitous fall ..read more

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. The Bible is for play, seriously ..read more

On October 25, 1978, about 250 White men strode across the orange carpet of the Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare’s lobby with a ten-dollar theological word on their minds: inerrancy. The weekend conference was invite only, a closed-door event organized by 39-year-old R. C. Sproul of Ligonier Ministries and backed by a grant, officially anonymous, from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ..read more

The arrest of a former Columbia University graduate student who had a leading role on campus criticizing Israel’s war in Gaza has sparked sharp divisions within the US Jewish community ..read more

Many are hailing presbyteries’ approval of Amendment 24-A, which enshrines, for the first time, recognition of LGBTQIA+ people in the Constitution of the Presbyterian Church (USA) and declares the denomination’s commitment to their full participation and representation in the church’s worship, governance and emerging life ..read more

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. Falling into a literary ocean, infinitely deep ..read more

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What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. To help us ask the right questions ..read more