In her 1993 hymn, “Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom,” the Ruth C. Duck personified wisdom as “she who clears the path to ...

Donna Jackson is a communications specialist for the United Church of Christ. From theological reflections to breaking ...

The square in the Neumarkt area of Zurich where Conrad Grebel lived in 1525, and where began the Anabaptist movement on ...

The women who would be war heroes For many Americans, the tears never stopped. While the 1973 Paris Peace Accords stilled the ...

At the beginning of each year, I do a kind of intensive, goals-oriented journaling. It asks you to set goals in different areas of your life, to imagine yourself a year into the future, to consider ...

I see it from my back window, the one overlooking trees in the summer, bare branches in the winter.... From theological reflections to breaking religion news to the latest books, the Christian Century ...

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 ...

Not long ago I cycled back from northwest central London on a hired bike. I’d just dropped it at a docking station behind Canada House and was about to walk across Trafalgar Square back to St.

Norman Maclean was a man of western Montana and its Big Blackfoot River. He listened to stories from deep in its currents that no one else could hear. He was born in 1902, when firefighting was an act ...

Look here,” he showed me, “all these buds. I’ll be cutting off what could be flowers.”It was January in western Pennsylvania, windy, cold with freezing temperatures prepared to stay.   But the man who ...

Peter Tanaka is a fourth-year student at Union and cochair of its student senate. He identifies as half Japanese and half ...

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