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 ...

JohnThe tree bore fruit for one summer only.A cluster of kumquats grew like a tumor in the heart;the branches couldn’t ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Shaylynn Bird danced across the arena under the hot midwestern summer sun, the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara and Oglala Lakota woman began to feel off.Bird, who once won a 76-song iron woman competition ...

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

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 ...

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