The scene representing the birth of Jesus is a common December sight, artfully arranged on church lawns or entryways across ...

Not until the Christmas they were in kindergarten and second grade. With the December scholastic film festival concluded, my ...

Lesley Finn is an award-winning writer and visual artist. She teaches at Yale University and the Center for Fiction in ...

Occasionally one of my children will ask me, “Am I your favorite child?” This both elicits a laugh I don’t think they were ...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in New Orleans, Louisiana, is nowhere near Lemon Tree Mound.So, it was something of a surprise a ...

Stepping forward to receive the host, I spread out my palms before I remember these aide memoires inscribed in black biro, blots not quite scrubbed away. The leftnow sat awkwardly in right ...

Clare Bryden is a writer, artist, and consultant from the United Kingdom. From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century's newsletters have you ...

“I became a complete person after my son died.” The spirit of singer Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur, who died in a fall from a cliff in the British seaside town of Brighton in 2015, animates the ...

Early in the movie Tár (directed by Todd Field), Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is holding forth about her art and life to a packed crowd at a New Yorker public talk. Lydia is a world-famous conductor and ...

I was probably halfway through divinity school when I turned to my husband and said, “I think I have a very fundamentally Christian mind.” My husband, raised in an almost completely secular home, ...

The origin story of my pacifism will be familiar to many Americans my age. I was 23 years old on September 11, 2001. I had grown up firmly middle-class and had lived, up to that point, in relatively ...

“How can you be half a religion?” The question comes to Sofia Samatar in a way that characterizes her memoir of a pilgrimage across Uzbekistan in search of a lost colony of Mennonites: through several ...