Christ & Creed Quarterly is a Christian magazine rooted in the Nicene faith of the undivided Church. It exists to publish serious, charitable, and readable Christian writing in theology, prayer, literature, humor, art, and culture.
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The Story of Susanna – set during the Babylonian exile, among the people of God living far from Jerusalem and far from the visible security of their own land. It is a story about beauty, corruption, false accusation, courage, and judgment. Read more
Deep Water: We are a mystery even to ourselves – We like to believe that we are rational creatures. This confidence survives despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, including but not limited to procrastination, addiction, doomscrolling, revenge fantasies, and the existence of “just one more episode.” Read more
A Theology of Humor: Christianity is serious, not grim – Humor is usually regarded as unserious, which is one of its best disguises. The devil, one suspects, understands jokes only as weapons; bureaucrats understand them as risks; school boards understand them as disciplinary matters. Christianity should understand them better. Humor is not merely entertainment. It is one of the ways a fallen world is made bearable, intelligible, and occasionally ridiculous enough to repent. Read more
The Anti-AI Hypocrisy – You may dislike it. You may fear it. You may write passionately worded essays declaring that it will destroy civilization, democracy, education, human creativity, and possibly the family dog. Yet AI continues to spread through society with the quiet inevitability of electricity flowing through a wire. Read more
In Defense of the Creed – The Bible, and only the Bible, is the inspired Word of God. But the Creed is more than correct. It is authoritative; the Church’s ancient confession of what biblical Christianity is. Here is why.
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Pascal’s Wager, Updated – Pascal’s Wager says belief is the safest bet, but what happens when the wager must choose between churches, creeds, and competing claims about hell? Read more
The Last Good Pope – John Calvin, the greatest critic of the Papacy, praised Pope Gregory the Great as “the last good pope.” The Eastern Orthodox honor him as St. Gregory the Dialogist; he was a pastor, profound theologian, and pivotal historical figure who belongs to all Nicene Christians. Read more
The Memory of Marey – Dostoyevsky is famous for murderers, madmen, saints, gamblers, revolutionaries, and people who can turn a cup of tea into a theological emergency. But in this brief and tender recollection, he gives us something quieter: a memory, a wound, and a glimpse of mercy. Read more
Blessings in Disguise – Our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ are a blessing. Often they are a blessing in disguise. Sometimes the disguise is really, really good. Read more
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