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For decades, the Christian Century has informed and shaped progressive, mainline Christianity. Committed to "thinking critically and living faithfully," the magazine explores through argument and reflection what it means to believe and live out the Christian faith in our time. As a voice of "generous orthodoxy," the Century is both loyal to the church and open to the world.
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The United Methodist Church’s condemnation of homosexuality—which sparked a half-century of conflict—is now no more. By a vote of 523 to 161 after about an hour and a half of debate, general conference delegates eliminated on Thursday the 52-year-old assertion in the denomination’s Social Principles that “the practice of homosexuality . . . is incompatible with Christian teaching ..read more
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United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly May 1 overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from ordination in the denomination, a historic step for the nation’s second-largest Protestant body. With a simple vote call and without debate, delegates to the general conference removed the ban on the ordination of “self-avowed practicing homosexuals”—a prohibition that dates to 1984 ..read more
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Christians sometimes say that hell is locked from the inside. What they mean is that people put themselves in hell, and only they can let themselves out. I recently encountered something like this ..read more
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in this hard year where I lost it all and more, here comes May, which is more than I deserve, dripping in lilacs and bleeding hearts against a grass so green, it takes your breath away. And I still have breath, pink lungs to send it in and out, a heart that’s still beating in spite of itself, and skin that feels blessed to be caressed by this sun-kissed wind, this cloudless day ..read more
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“So, are you keeping any Pannenberg?” “No,” I said after a pause so long my friend wondered if I had heard him. “Sorry, Wolfhart.” He had come to the office to help me sort and pack for my next move, which I hoped would be my last: from a big parsonage to a little house of my own. In short, into retirement. Only a very few of my books would make the trip with me ..read more