The Christian Century: Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive
WEBWritten by the oppressor, sung by the oppressed. James Walvin traces a beloved American hymn on its winding journey across racial divisions through the centuries. by Jeffrey L. Johnson.
Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
WEBJun 7, 2017 · In Islam, Jesus, peace and blessings be upon him, is one of the five greatest messengers of God who are collectively known as the ‘Ul al-Azm or the Possessors of Steadfastness. Jesus is also a real person who lived in Roman Judea in the first century of the Common Era. Muslims share with Christians most of the basic outlines of Jesus’ story ...
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
WEBThe promise of the land will remain conditional until the dawn of the messianic age. Israel’s ability to retain its independence will depend on both its obedience to the commandments and the resolve and power of its military. The return of the Jews to Israel has also posed a challenge to Christians.
What made early Christians a peculiar people? - The Christian …
WEBSo far as we know, the only religious groups that took this stance were those of Judaism and early Christianity. Of course, what became Christianity originated among early first-century Jewish followers of Jesus, and the stance against worshiping the traditional gods of the larger Roman world was inherited from the ancient Jewish matrix of …
Grace in the face of suicide: Theological questions and hopes
WEBMar 8, 2000 · Grace in the face of suicide: Theological questions and hopes. by Mary T. Stimming in the March 8, 2000 issue. Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, by Kay Redfield Jamison. Every 17 minutes someone in America takes his or her own life. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, and …
Do politics belong in church? - The Christian Century
WEBOct 10, 2018 · Servants of the church who claim that they are not political are indeed political. However, they are often servants of a politics contrary to a Christian understanding of God’s reign. Our speech is political because it is the speech of God’s new creation. The church’s language is not spectator language.
In America, Jesus is Black because he was Jewish
WEBFeb 9, 2022 · It is racial because the invention of Blackness is rooted in the Christian denial of Jewishness. Whiteness as a racial concept—which is to say, as the racist assignment of superiority to people of a certain hue hailing from a certain territory or culture—forgets that, for Christians, the only relevant distinction among the …
James Cone's theology is easy to like and hard to live
WEBMay 2, 2018. James Cone. Photo courtesy of Union Theological Seminary. All theology starts with the particularity of the theologian’s experience, believed James Cone, who died Saturday at the age of 79. “I was born in Fordyce, Arkansas,” begins his groundbreaking work of black theology, God of the Oppressed. “Two important realities ...
Paul wrote 1 Corinthians to a community in the middle of a culture …
WEBPaul wrote his first letter to the Corinthians, now lost, in the fall of 50 CE. The Corinthians pushed back quite hard. They wrote a reply to Paul with a number of questions. In the spring of 51 CE he wrote a long letter back, our 1 Corinthians. This is where we start to build up a more detailed picture of the community, and it is not a pretty ...
Poetry - The Christian Century
WEBAugust 2, 2024. Blessings. by D. S. Martin. July 31, 2024. poem about when i almost wore out my sony cd player, the shiny red one, on account of pressing the back button and the play button in rapid succession so michael stipe’s voice crooned over the tinny speaker “everybody hurts sommmmetimes so hollld onnn” and how in all my preteen ...