New CC articles on ancient Christian manuscripts, a divided USA, and much more.
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Last week I spent 4 exciting days at the Festival of Faith & Writing. I didn’t go to a single conference session; I just sat the Century table and met our readers, writers, and future writers. Since I am not at all a celebrity, it was surreal when author Margaret Feinberg ([link removed]) told me she reads this email every week and when philosopher James K. A. Smith ([link removed]) recognized me from the Century YouTube channel ([link removed]) .
As fun as it is to meet people who are somewhat famous, it was also delightful to chat with poets, pastors, novelists, and folks who just really like to read and write. And it got me thinking about an idea I’ve been sitting on for a long time: I’d love to meet you face to face! On Zoom, that is. I am going to open up my Friday lunches to readers of the Century. If you’re at all interested in learning more about CC or me, or you’d like to tell me a bit about yourself or your work, or maybe pitch an article idea, please schedule a 15-minute Zoom call with me ([link removed]) . Slots are available every Friday, 12-1pm central.
As usual, scroll down for great new content. This week we have a report on newly published fragments ([link removed]) of ancient Christian papyri, a reflection on God blessing a divided America ([link removed]) , and much more.
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** Early Christianity, fragment by fragment ([link removed])
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“Even if this new published papyrus fragment is not a portion of the Gospel of Mary, it is significant: it shows that multiple ancient Christian groups identified someone named Mary as receiving special revelation from Jesus.”
by Elizabeth Shrader Polczer
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** How might God bless a divided America? ([link removed])
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“As I saw this procession taking place, my imagination went to what the liturgy might be saying to this divided country.”
by Samuel Wells
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** The buddy-cop feminist detective series I didn’t know I needed ([link removed])
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“Somehow Deadloch manages to hit every beat of the prestige crime drama, creating a nail-biting whodunit while skewering the genre at the same time.”
by Kathryn Reklis
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** In the Lectionary for April 21 (Easter 4B) ([link removed])
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A dead shepherd isn’t helpful to anyone, least of all to the sheep left behind.
by Austin Shelley
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** Overshadowed by the Twelve ([link removed])
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“Holly Carey’s carefully researched and attractively written book is not just a collection of helpful information; it implicitly trains readers to see everything that is in scripture—and everyone.”
Nijay K. Gupta reviews Women Who Do
** A refugee’s feast: the story of Maria Skobtsova ([link removed])
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In the final episode of the In Search Of podcast, host Amy Frykholm explores the story of a saint who practiced hospitality in 1917 St. Petersburg, to Paris in the 1930s, until her death in a Nazi concentration camp in the 1940s.
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