Died: Jack Iker, Anglican Who Drew the Line at Women’s Ordination
Jack Iker, a Texas bishop who took 48 congregations and 15,000 parishioners out of the Episcopal Church USA and helped start the Anglican Church in...
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The Robot Will Lie Down With the Gosling
In an animation landscape full of sequels, prequels, and remakes, The Wild Robot is a welcome respite. Based on Peter Brown’s eponymous 2016 novel and...
Church Disappointment Is Multilayered
Why are people leaving the church or their faith behind? Some answers boil down to platitudes, like a supposed desire to pursue a sinful lifestyle....
In Appalachia, Helene’s Water Crisis Taps a Global Christian Response
International Christian engineering nonprofit Water Mission usually responds to clean water crises overseas, like flooding in East Africa this year or the earthquake in Turkey...
Back at Shooting Site, Trump Supporters Pray for His Protection
When Kori Koss heard that Donald Trump was coming back to Butler, she felt her stomach sink. It’s been less than three months since a...
Evangelicals Struggle to Preach Life in the Top Country for Assisted Death
Canadian Christians increasingly find their pro-life values in conflict with their nation’s rapid acceptance of medical assistance in dying (MAID). Many say churches could be...
Safety Shouldn’t Come First
You may be tempted to read The Pursuit of Safety: A Theology of Danger, Risk, and Security with an eye toward determining whether and to...
A Hurricane Doesn’t Tell Us Who to Hate
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. My family is from one of the most hurricane-prone places in the United States—our hometown was virtually...
#140: When Fear Breeds Unfaithfulness
In this episode, Frank and Jared continue the commentary on every reference to the kingdom of God in the Gospels. This episode covers Luke 19:11-27....
The Evangelicalism of Jimmy Carter
When Jimmy Carter spoke about his faith in Christ while campaigning for president in 1976, many evangelicals were ecstatic. No previous presidential candidate had claimed...
Can a Lebanese Seminary Move Beyond the Liberal-Conservative Impasse?
The oldest Protestant seminary in the Middle East has a new vision. Officially founded in 1932 but with origins dating back to the 19th-century missionary...
Faith Lived Close to the Land
My dad eased his pickup truck along the rolling sidehill, tracing the curves in the rows of hay stretching before us, the steering wheel wandering...
Fasting Is A Good Thing. But For Some of Us, It’s Complicated.
For a time when I was a child, I wanted nothing unless it was grilled cheese—without the bread. My loving parents accommodated me by placing...
Fourth Lausanne Congress Embraces Younger Leaders, ‘Marketplace’ Christians, and Technology
This story will be updated. Steve Oh can trace his family’s Christian heritage back to the Protestant missionaries who arrived in Korea in the 1800s. ...
Berlin Church Plant Embraces All That Jazz
It’s Saturday night, and you’re looking for jazz in Germany’s capital. You could catch an after-midnight jam session at A-Trane in Charlottenburg, get cozy in...