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“The cross demands that we join in God’s eternal mission to create a loving and just world.” – Our new Voices columnist, Kelly Brown Douglas christiancentury.org/voices/what-do…

“It is not just the words that Jeremiah speaks that make him a prophet. It is his willingness to share in the judgment, in the lamentation, in the exile.” – Diane Roth #lectionary christiancentury.org/sunday-s-comin…

“Like most young men his age, my son is caught in the crosshairs of our shifting ideas about violence and masculinity, and Cobra Kai taps into this.” – @kathrynreklis christiancentury.org/screen-time/co…

Amy Leach playfully contrasts the apocalyptic, fundamentalist worldviews of her childhood with the teeming abundance of life that she found later. Review by @amyfryk: christiancentury.org/books/magic-am… @fsgbooks

“‘Who is God?’ has become somewhat of a daily question for me, a kind of centering I’ve needed as God and Christianity and the Bible are invoked alongside policies of death and confinement and deportation and exclusion.” – Brian Bantum christiancentury.org/voices/god-bre…

“We need to speak out. We need to say, for example, that mass deportation is against our gospel values and our baptismal covenant. We need to not shrink back or worry.” – Martin Dickinson, in an interview with @olivalejandra_ christiancentury.org/interviews/def…

“Theological study, if we’re doing it right, doesn’t avoid the crises of our world. It interrogates them at the deepest level.” – Andrew Packman christiancentury.org/features/conso…

“To trace human work through gratitude to grace is pretty standard Lutheran fare. Many at Holden Village add a critical third piece: the gift of God’s creation and in return our care for this gift.” – Jason Mahn christiancentury.org/features/learn…

How shall we render to Caesar? Richard Lischer offers a gospel-centered call for faithful resistance and reconciliation. christiancentury.org/features/how-s…

Journalist @joeberg documents Elie Wiesel’s work, his activism, and the belief in God that he never fully renounced. Read the review by Charles Scriven: christiancentury.org/books/elie-wie… @yalepress

“What if you’re facing an emergency, your fight-or-flight response has been triggered, and you’ve been conditioned since childhood to call the police—even if your thinking on policing has since changed?” – the Christian Century editors christiancentury.org/editors/emerge…

“The sacraments are depth charges in the complacent waterways of the church, disturbing sediment and creating new channels.” – Rachel Mann christiancentury.org/voices/what-ca…

“To steady ourselves we’ll need to find each other, to make room for one another around a table, in our living rooms, at church.” – Isaac Villegas christiancentury.org/voices/emotion…

“No one from 16th-century Anabaptism lived long enough to write a systematic theology.” – Melissa Florer-Bixler christiancentury.org/voices/church-…

“Pressing into our sanctified imagination ushers us beyond a faith that already makes sense to us.” – Charisse R. Tucker #lectionary christiancentury.org/article/sunday…

“There came a child once / who sang God’s peace, / a potent “all is well,” / though nothing was, / piped in a small voice / in the middle of a dark night / with no promise of dawn.” – Read Kathleen L. Housley’s full poem: christiancentury.org/poetry/perfect…

Taymullah Abdur-Rahman, or Imam Tay as he is affectionately known, demonstrates that friendship across religious difference can elicit personal and social transformation. Review by Rafia Amina Khader: christiancentury.org/books/how-boy-… @broadleaf_books

“I was struck by the contrast between the clarity and forthrightness of the students’ activism and the response of the broader church.” – Emilee Walker-Cornetta christiancentury.org/features/semin…

“I predict that academic theology will continue to show a greater interest in the topic of cooking. But I fear that it will be an interest abstracted from the actual people who have been responsible for cooking for most of human history.” – @kvslice christiancentury.org/features/acade…