Digital Lectors for a Postliterate Age
Postliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners. Suppose you agree that ours is an increasingly postliterate age. The...
Category : Christian News Around The Web
SBC Membership Falls to 47-Year Low, But Church Involvement Is Up
Amid the continued declines, Southern Baptists are celebrating back-to-back years of growth in worship attendance and baptism. Despite years of record-setting declines shrinking the Southern...
Let the Neurodivergent Children Come to Me
Gentle parenting is one tool to train up children who have disabilities with love and wisdom. As a toddler, my son would often lash out...
Hillsong Abuse Settlement Rejected Over NDA
Victim says she wants accountability more than money. Hillsong Church Australia’s legal settlement with a former student who was groped by a worship leader fell...
Conservative Methodists, Unite
After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination. That was fast. In the...
One of Oldest Books in Existence Will Be Sold, Worrying Scholars
An ancient codex, containing perhaps the earliest complete versions of Jonah and 1 Peter, goes up for auction in June. Will it disappear? One of...
The Basketball Team Created to Represent God
The Dallas Mavericks were intended to be the first Christian team in the NBA. At the time, 1980 did not seem like a great year...
United Methodists Strike Ban on LGBTQ Clergy
After years of disagreement and the departure of thousands of churches, the change passed without debate. United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly Wednesday...
Taylor Swift Can Do Whatever She Wants
But true liberty, in art and in life, is created by constraints. Taylor Swift answers to no one. Not music industry executives: Her songs returned...
Holy Handouts: Venezuela’s Maduro Woos Evangelical Voters with Gifts and Cash
As the presidential election approaches, the incumbent government seeks to win support with aid to churches and pastors. In many countries, politicians try to win...
Interview: Luci Shaw Wants to Open the Windows
In Reversing Entropy, the 95-year-old poet looks lovingly at creation. Luci Shaw is a legend in Christian literary circles. Her many volumes of poetry—named for...
#129: And His Kingdom Shall Have No End
In this episode, Frank and Tim continue the commentary on every reference to the kingdom of God in the Gospels. This episode covers Luke 1:29-33....
World Vision Brought Clean Water to More Than 1 Million Rwandans
How the world’s largest nongovernmental provider of the resource is delivering on its promise. For years, whenever Regina Mukasimpunga sat in church, she found it...
Billy Graham Preached at His Crusades. His Singers Believed They Were Preaching Too.
A late historian explores how crusade hymns told both the classic story of gospel salvation and the evolving story of evangelical worship music. Crowds of...
Care for the Environment Is Biblical. It’s Also a Witness to Environmentalists.
Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co-laborers. I love nature documentaries, especially those...
India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.
The government plans to close its porous border with Myanmar to boost security, separating ethnic groups that straddle the boundary. Ngamreichan Tuithung runs a Christian...