Don’t Let Yourself Be ‘Cured of Churchgoing’
Church homelessness is lonely and exhausting. And the only antidote is Christian community. When my family moved from Washington State to California, my parents braced...
Category : Christian News Around The Web
Azerbaijan Added to US List of Religious Freedom Offenders
Is the Islamic nation’s inclusion—the State Department's only change this year—driven by its treatment of Christians, Muslims, or ethnic Armenians displaced from the Artsakh enclave?...
Christian Colleges Try Eliminating Tuition to Draw Students
A number of schools are trying various methods of not charging tuition, born out of their convictions about debt and hopes for students to choose...
How IVF Made Its Way into Evangelical Pro-Life Debates
And what I wish I had considered before reproductive assistance. When evangelicals speak of the unborn, they’re often thinking of babies growing inside pregnant moms....
Brazil’s Top 10 Bible Verses
Leaders reflect on what YouVersion list of the most-shared Scriptures in their nation includes—and misses. The most popular verses for Brazilians in 2023 focused on...
The Bible Dictates What the Church Teaches. Should Church Teaching Dictate How We Read the Bible?
A Protestant considers a Catholic theologian’s call for an “ecclesial” reading of Scripture. On November 10, 1942, following a British victory in Egypt during World...
Evangelicals Shouldn’t Criticize Evangelicalism (Unless the Evangel Really Matters)
The gospel doesn’t come with a gag order. It calls us to name and repent of idolatries and hypocrisies—especially our own. This piece was adapted...
The Harvard Obsession
Harvard president Claudine Gay has resigned. Perhaps it’s not time to think less of Harvard, but to think of Harvard less. On Tuesday, I received...
Word Perfect: Christian Proofreaders Celebrate a Billion Bibles Checked
Peachtree Publishing Services reviews 80 percent of Protestant Bibles in the US, looking at 300,000 details in each project. When Jan Gibbs began proofreading Bibles...
Close Encounters of the Elite Institutional Kind
How a contested alien abduction claim from the 1960s helps explain modern cynicism toward credentialed experts and organizations. A friend recently recounted a horrible flying...
Died: Donald Wildmon, Champion of Christian Boycotts
The Methodist minister and founder of American Family Association mobilized believers to exert economic influence on major corporations. Donald Wildmon, a Methodist minister who seized...
Friends in High Places
We love celebrity conversions, but this obsession may not be as gospel-centered as it seems. We love Christian celebrities. And by that I don’t only...
How Mennonites Learned to Thrive in Latin America
A denomination known for its traditional way of life and pacifist convictions has spread out across the region. The well-kept lawns and exquisitely maintained houses...
Christmas Massacres Challenge Secular Explanations of Nigeria Conflict
Religious animosity mixed with farmer-herder tensions continue to plague Christians in beleaguered Middle Belt region. At least 140 Nigerian Christians were killed over the Christmas...