How One Indonesian Church Is Fighting Food Insecurity
In the village of Kemadang, long dry spells threatened local farmers’ livelihoods until a church-led granary brought hope. Standing in her rice field in the...
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From Passion to the Pews, Major Conferences Inspire Local Worship
Arena events serve as the proving grounds for new music. The 2024 Passion conference opened with a countdown video. The crowd of 55,000 students packed...
Southern Baptists Finally Name New Executive Committee President
Seminary head Jeff Iorg steps in after multiple resignations, failed searches, and back-to-back interim leaders. After more than two years of uncertainty and at times,...
Why Character Doesn’t Matter Anymore
The “cheerful prudery” of Ned Flanders has given way to vulgarity, misogyny, and partisanship. What does this mean for our witness? This piece was adapted...
Must Social Service Providers Nix Their Faith to Receive Federal Funds?
Rather than follow the equal protections secured in Supreme Court decisions, the Biden administration opted for a complicated and soul-killing alternative. Nine federal departments have...
Why Every Day This Week Is Holy
Christians should celebrate from Palm to Easter Sunday—and everything in between. As a child, my twin and I would often stage elaborate bake-offs during the...
Make the Internet Modest Again
We gained an audience but overexposed our souls. Ten years ago, I published my first book. Like many of my peers, my work draws from...
Fasting from Food in a Land of Plenty
Abstaining from eating confronts the cultural lies we believe about our bodies. I stood frozen in the cereal aisle. On either side of me were...
Harnessing the Power of Europe’s Migrant Churches
A seminary professor from Sierra Leone shares how African arrivals are changing the church in Belgium and the rest of the continent. Joseph Bosco Bangura...
Survey: US Hispanic Churches Could Do More if They Had More
Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities. Pastors of Hispanic Protestant churches in...
#126: The Parable of Reserved Oil
In this episode, Frank and Tim continue the commentary on every reference to the kingdom of God in the Gospels. This episode covers Matthew 25:1-13....
Let’s Not Give Up Meetings on the Church Calendar
What if we ordered our habitual gatherings around Christ and the gospel story more than twice a year? This is the time of year when...
As Freedoms Shrink in Hong Kong, One Christian Media Editor Explains Why He Stays
Christian journalism has become even more important after the government passed a tough new national security law. Editor’s Note: Hong Kong officials unanimously passed its...
Honey, We Shrunk the Family
Timothy P. Carney’s Family Unfriendly explores plunging American fertility and how to get out of the baby bust. In 204 B.C., the Romans imported a...
Who Restricts Religion More, Politicians or the People? Pew Crunched the Global Data.
Annual report grades 198 nations and territories, with 9 in 10 harassing believing communities. China and Nigeria score the worst. Government restrictions on religion are...
Metaphors Have a Power That’s More Than Metaphorical
Joy Clarkson peels back the veil of overfamiliarity from commonplace expressions and images. I’m afraid these men would only slow me down,” says a cocksure...