SCAR LEWIS has just returned from a year spent in Europe and North Africa, one of the results of which is the article from his pen which appears in this issue. He writes in a letter to the editors: I have come back with two ambi tions: to live in a villa in Fiesole and to ride on a camel from some oasis in southern Algeria to Timbuctu. Pending the realization of these ambitions I live in a bungalow in Berkeley, California, and ride on the street cars. The CHRISTIAN A Journal of Religion CHARLES CLAYTON MORRISON and Published Weekly Editors Four Dollars a Year The Religious Revolution REAT and vital changes taking place in men's thought as to what religion is and what its function is in personal and social life-new assessment of old doctrines-fresh conceptions of God and destiny and duty demanding room in the realm of faith-Jesus Christ assuming a new role in the lives of his followers the ancient Bible undergoing revision and reinterpretation-the church challenged as to its competence to carry on the spiritual business of mankind-the missionary enterprise at a crisis-denominationalism losing its hold and confessing its futility-science and social passion saturating traditional creeds and churchly virtues with new convictions and ideals-religion under our very hand and eye is passing through an epoch of change more profound and revolutionary than the Protestant reformation of the sixteenth century! The most interesting subject in all the world RELIGION! —and never in history so interesting as right now! HE Christian Century is a free It is under obligation to no denomination, no society, no board, no ecclesiastical or other interest of any sort, and is therefore in a position to speak its convictions concerning events, or personalities, or doctrines, or institutions without let or hindrance from any established interest what soever. Within the past five years The Christian Century has come into a unique position in the journalism of America. Its influence now extends into all the communions of the American church. It is equally at home among Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Methodists, Disciples, Baptists, Episcopalians, evangelical Unitarians and liberal Jews; and not a few of the liberal leaders of the Roman Catholic church are among its readers. Its readers now extend to every country on the globe. Besides, it is gripping the minds of thinking men and women who have no church connection. They are astonished that from within the church, which many supposed had become moribund and incurably denominational in its vision, there should emerge a journal in earnest with the church, devout and evangelical, and at the same time as free as a university classroom. Such people stand amazed to find themselves actually enjoying a religious paper! A glance at its pages will reveal the fact that it conceives its field and function as something quite different from other religious papers. It seeks-and it finds the leaderlike minds in all walks of life. There probably does not exist anywhere a more remarkable and adequate roster of America's religious and moral leadership than the present subscription list of The Christian Century. The most vital minds in church life, in social action And besides, the very presence on But it definitely and purposely restricts itself to another field. The constituency which it seeks to serve is that of the thoughtful, mature and independent leaders, particularly from the laity, inside and outside the churches, who desire to follow the free and untrammeled discussion of living issues in the light of the mind of Christ. This is a field which no other Yet this journal of religion is no that! Its discussions and editorials are not intended merely for professionals, but for the man in the street and pew-lay leaders from the rank and file. The intelligent layman and woman are in the editorial mind continually, and the paper is produced for them. Perhaps it is just this fact that explains why The Christian Century is so widely read by teachers and ministers and other professional folk. And its readers have been grateful Consider the names of some con- International Affairs-The World Take your choice of these coupons A Great Book with a New Subscription THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY, 508 S. 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