Features
Immigration law and the politics of disgust
Isolated for the holidays? You should feast anyway.
I’ve been a professor for 40 years, but teaching Greek to an eight-year-old may be my crowning achievement
Advent is a season of sighs, especially this year
Oregon has shown us how to finally end the war on drugs
Books
Seeing Black people in scripture
Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known.
The books we’re giving as Christmas gifts
If your secret Santa were a Century editor, here’s what you might be getting.
A religious studies thriller about Karen King’s “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife”
Ariel Sabar’s nonfiction book contains more twists and turns than a car chase.
Would we recognize a modern-day messiah?
Sean Gandert’s novel asks us to decide if a man is a saint or a sham.
There is no single refugee resettlement story
Jessica Goudeau’s new book embeds the memoirs of two very different women in a primer on what it means to seek refuge in America.
Departments
The beautiful stillness of the Christ child
The Baptist War didn’t just end slavery in Jamaica
African-American Women of the Civil Rights Movement, by Pamela Chatterton-Purdy
The words I turn to in times of grief and distress
News
Seniors form COVID-19 pods to ward off isolation this winter
Influential book publisher William Eerdmans Jr. dies at 97
Methodist civil rights leader William Bobby McClain dies at 82
Adam Taylor succeeds Jim Wallis at Sojourners
The making of the QAnon conspiracy cult
Popular Muslim prayer app ends relationship with firm selling data to US military
How a Baptist educator’s simple plan gave rise to health insurance
