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“Gene Schmidt’s visual language of confession requires locality as both witness and absolver.”

– art commentary from Maria Fee: www.christiancentury.org/art/gene-sch...
December 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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David Zahl focuses on sharing a gospel that’s unapologetically about the grace of God.

Katherine Willis Pershey reviews The Big Relief: www.christiancentury.org/books/relief...
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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“We should, @dwcongdon.com argues, call off the search for true Christianity and instead embrace a diversity of beliefs and practices.”

– review by William J. Schultz: www.christiancentury.org/books/who-ge...

@universitypress.cambridge.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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“Jo Bertini’s career has been shaped by deserts across the globe, and the Australian painter infuses her canvases with a sense of reverence and intimacy.”

– art commentary from Yohana Junker: www.christiancentury.org/art/jo-berti...
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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“My colleague’s Black church was taking a break from anti-racism work with White churches. So we decided to sing together.”

– @melissaf-b.bsky.social, in her latest column: www.christiancentury.org/voices/share...
November 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Theologian Robert Cady Saler considers Death to the World, an Eastern Orthodox movement that is both thoroughly Christian and thoroughly punk.

Review by Thomas R. Gaulke:
www.christiancentury.org/books/punk-d...
@tandtclark.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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“The exhibition Coverings comprises several textile goods in the form of purses, scarves, shawls, corded fringed belts—all made of recycled plastic.”

– art commentary from Maria Fee, about Noemia Marinho’s Gleaning Project: www.christiancentury.org/art/noemia-m...
October 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Patrick Condon builds on existing inequality research to focus on one big problem: the price of urban land.

A review by Tim Dickau.

www.christiancentury.org/books/priced...
September 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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“Kevin Sack’s recounting of Mother Emanuel’s founding in 1817 and how it withstood two centuries of persecution reads like Greek mythology, a testament to the resilience of a people committed to the advent of the kingdom of God.”

– Elizabeth Robeson

www.christiancentury.org/books/mother...
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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“In his short but profound new book, ethicist David Gushee examines 40 texts in which Jesus shares a specific ethical concept or injunction reflecting God’s will for humanity.”

– read the review by Brian Volck: www.christiancentury.org/books/morali...
August 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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We love hearing from our readers. Here’s the Letters & Comments section from our Sept. issue, with thoughtful responses to @jasongedwards.bsky.social, @texasbishop9.bsky.social, @mwatsonfore.bsky.social, Stanley Hauerwas, Valerie Weaver-Zercher, and more:

www.christiancentury.org/letters-comm...
August 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Boldt Decision wasn’t just about salmon. It was about broken treaties and tribal sovereignty.

John Rosenberg reviews new books by Charles Wilkinson and John C. Hughes: www.christiancentury.org/books/fish-w...

@uwapress.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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“It was easy to be absorbed by @charlottewood.bsky.social’s spare, straightforward prose.”

– C. J. Surbaugh reviews Stone Yard Devotional (@riverheadbooks.bsky.social): www.christiancentury.org/books/diary-...
August 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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“Paul Emory Putz ends his study of the complex relationship between Christianity and American sports with two celebrity employments of faith, each with a 20th-century Protestant heritage: Tim Tebow and Colin Kaepernick.”

– review by Jeffrey L. Johnson: www.christiancentury.org/books/histor...
July 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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“Despite Caputo’s intellectual grounding, the book targets a nonacademic audience. It guides readers through a case for developing a new relationship with religion.”

– Jesse Lava reviews What to Believe? (@columbiaup.bsky.social): www.christiancentury.org/books/jack-c...
July 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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For theologian Judith Wolfe, imagination is a necessary part of how we know the Divine.

Lauren Winner reviews Wolfe’s The Theological Imagination (@universitypress.cambridge.org): www.christiancentury.org/books/encoun...
July 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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“‪@joelegoza.bsky.social presses readers toward repentance and repair with a bold strategy of reparations that might come as an ‘aha’ moment for the nation.”

– Jeannine Hill Fletcher reviews Rebirth of a Nation: www.christiancentury.org/books/racism...

@eerdmansbooks.bsky.social
July 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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A pair of new books can challenge Christians to see transportation as an expression of the beloved community.

@pedalingpastor.bsky.social reviews @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social and @nondriver.bsky.social:

www.christiancentury.org/books/can-we... ‬
July 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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“The tree is not coming back, the arborist said,
thanks to the pine bark beetles that
tunneled beneath its tissue”

– Read the complete poem by @julielmoore23.bsky.social:
www.christiancentury.org/poetry/white...
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Read Sarah Carson’s new poem, “Parable in Which No One Else in the Super 8 Breakfast Lounge Thinks About How This Hotel Might Outlive Us”:

www.christiancentury.org/poetry/parab...
June 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Helen Boursier explores spirituality before, during, and after people decide to cross into the United States.

M. C. Lohrmann reviews Precious Precarity: www.christiancentury.org/books/eccles...
June 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A Gathering of Physicists

It was 1979, and our freshman class
of physics majors had cosmic aspirations.
We wanted to be an irresistible force.
We wanted to be waves rippling across space

Read the complete poem by Janice Freytag: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/gathe...
June 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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“Rabbi Irving Greenberg’s fervent prayer is for a global, pluralistic embrace of shared covenantal responsibility to protect and enhance life in our anguished world as it yearns for redemption.”

– Israel Zoberman reviews The Triumph of Life:
www.christiancentury.org/books/power-...
June 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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“When I lived alone on the north coast,
I was slender as a glass of skim milk
and wore my house dress by the sea.”

Read the complete poem by Karen An-Hwei Lee:
www.christiancentury.org/poetry/half-...
June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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“I Sit Among the Mothers”
in the balcony, summer heat risen,
legs stuck to the pew. …

– Emily Patterson’s new poem: www.christiancentury.org/poetry/i-sit...
May 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM