Category : Christian News Around The Web

When the CCM business model faltered, it gave way to what sells even better: politics and fearmongering. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter....

How their disaffiliation stands to have a bigger impact on their communities and why leaders are hopeful they’ll come back. Black Americans are the most...

Self-help books are wildly popular, including among Christians. But can they keep their promise to improve us? Heaven helps those who help themselves.” So opens...

Cutting off “toxic” people is social media’s go-to mental health advice. But Jesus commands us to seek conversation and reconciliation. Toxic. Abusive. Oppressive. Unhealthy. I’d...

Church leaders believe Christ still offers the answers that the religiously unaffiliated are looking for, even if religious baggage is driving them away. With 28...

Ministry leaders—and Africa Cup football fanatics—weigh in on the divine’s role in sports. Few saw a third Africa Cup of Nations title in reach for...

Being a “strong Black woman” was my badge of honor, until it almost killed me. There are many issues of pressing concern for Black Christians...

The popular pastor’s latest works inhabit a fruitful tension between inheriting church tradition and rebuilding it for today’s world. I’ll begin with a confession: I...

The cost of the cross in a world that loves pleasure In some of the most haunting words in Scripture, Christ tells his disciples, “If...

With so much at stake, how can we follow the psalmist's instruction? On a sticky, steamy night last summer, I sat on my back porch...

The hope and anxiety inherent in Jesus' last passover feast Can you remember what you ate yesterday? Maybe you had a bagel for breakfast or...

There is no resurrection without death It can be hard to hope and believe when everything you touch is cold. I’ve been praying about a...

When life is too much to bear, our need for a savior becomes clear Have you heard the cliché Christian saying that goes, “God won’t...

Jesus lingers with us in our loss, both during and beyond Easter It’s an eternal tension, a quintessential question Christians carry: How do we hold...

How Jesus reconditions our life even after we fail him At the turn of the 20th century, a Russian physician named Ivan Pavlov won a...

God's mysterious work of consolation and concealment One thing I love about the Bible is its tendency to simultaneously shed light and to obscure, to...