Simon Armitage has translated a number of medieval poems into modern English, including “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” “The Death of King Arthur” (an anonymous work, not Malory’s long prose ...

Judged the distance from the building to his foremost claw.

Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.

For years we’ve hosted a barred owl in the woods behind our house. A couple of weeks ago I stepped into our sunroom only to be startled immediately by our friendly owl taking wing from its perch in ...