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Who Restricts Religion More, Politicians or the People? Pew Crunched the Global Data.
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 18:00
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 at a global high. Social...
Metaphors Have a Power That's More Than Metaphorical
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 16:00
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 Benedict Cumberbatch in the role of the...
Died: Michael Knott, Christian Alternative Musician Who Helped Launch Tooth & Nail
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 14:43
Knott wrote rock operas, sang with honesty and conviction, called out hypocrites, and bucked the norms of the Christian music industry. Michael Knott, whose music and influence helped cultivate the...
Heaven Isn't Our Eternal Escape from Work
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 12:00
Only on our best days do we get a glimpse of the joyful labor to come. There's an old saying regarding work: "Find something you love to do, and you'll never work a day in your life." It's a nice...
Passover's Promises for My Children
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 12:00
When I married into a Jewish family, antisemitism hit home. Now, the holy day reminds me of our future hope. On October 7, 2023, my mother-in-law called. "Have you seen the news?" she asked...
Will 'Complementarianism' Survive?
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 12:00
I want to continue to call myself a complementarian. But we need to reclaim the term. Is there a future for complementarianism? I don't mean whether the God-ordained concept of complementarity...
Complementarian at Home, Egalitarian at Church? Paul Would Approve.
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 12:00
The biggest New Testament passages on gender roles may have more to do with marriage than ministry. Christianity Today once featured a cartoon depicting the apostle Paul arriving at Corinth and...
Gender Roles Beyond the Western Church
Christianity Today 2024-03-18 @ 12:00
Scott W. Sunquist calls the American church to observe the diversity in ecclesiologies around the world. The recent revival of interest in biblical gender roles—how men and women serve in...
White Evangelicals Want Christian Influence, Not a 'Christian Nation'
Christianity Today 2024-03-15 @ 16:30
A new study finds white evangelicals are most eager to see their faith reflected more in the government, but very few say they support Christian nationalism. In a country where 80 percent of adults...
The Witness of Women Is Written on the Walls
Christianity Today 2024-03-15 @ 14:00
I needed female heroes, and I found them in ancient churches. I grew up believing women could do it all. In rural South Dakota, I was surrounded by farm women, who are some of the toughest, most...
The Body of Christ Cannot Be Mummified
Christianity Today 2024-03-15 @ 14:00
An oft-forgotten mummy in Scripture teaches us how idolatry deadens, but Jesus awakens. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. Over the past several weeks, I was...
Single Christians Have Common Needs—the Same Needs All Christians Have
Christianity Today 2024-03-14 @ 18:00
Anna Broadway's survey of global singleness challenges a marriage status hierarchy within the church. For evangelical Christians, conversations about singleness tend to be predictable. Whether it's...
American Bible Society Will Close Its $60 Million Museum
Christianity Today 2024-03-14 @ 16:30
The Bible museum on Independence Mall in Philadelphia was open less than three years and had attracted fewer visitors than projected. American Bible Society announced it will shutter its Faith and...
Bad News May Be a Burning Bush
Christianity Today 2024-03-14 @ 15:00
I understand frustration with media negativity. But bad news may be God's invitation to work alongside him. On a church mission trip in 2004, 65-year-old Ramon Billhimer looked out a bus window in...
Reading the Bible With Women
Christianity Today 2024-03-13 @ 17:00
The caricature of Rahab and other female characters in Scripture often sidelines their contribution. Several years ago, I was invited to write the notes for a new women's study Bible. The project...
Tradwife Content Offers Fundamentalism Fit for Instagram
Christianity Today 2024-03-13 @ 16:00
The latest influencer movement wants to "bring back" a narrow vision of biblical womanhood with pretty pictures, long dresses, and homemade bread. Let's bring back beauty," begins the caption of a...
How (Not) to Talk About 'Christian Nationalism'
Christianity Today 2024-03-13 @ 15:00
The phrase is increasingly useless—unfairly applied to ordinary Christians yet too weak to sufficiently condemn "another gospel" in our midst. Some years ago, the Reformed philosopher Alvin...
Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis as a Story of Grace
Christianity Today 2024-03-13 @ 11:00
What the author sees in the narrative of Scripture. Author Marilynne Robinson has long brought layered characters and powerful plots to the page. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that she is looking...
My Disabled Son Is the Image of God
Christianity Today 2024-03-12 @ 17:00
As a pastor, I've wrestled with the theological implications of my child's disability. When my nine-year-old son Benji was an infant, we were in and out of hospitals for the first few months of his...
Mamie Johnston: A Brave Missionary in Manchuria
Christianity Today 2024-03-12 @ 14:00
Bandits, Japanese invaders, and Communists all threatened her life. Her dedication never wavered. In 1923, 26-year-old Mamie Johnston (韩悦恩, Han Yue-en) was sent by the Presbyterian Church in...
Hackers Try to Take AI to Church
Christianity Today 2024-03-12 @ 12:30
Colorado "hackathon" inspires search for algorithms to help Christian congregations. Nick Skytland likes to ask pastors a question. "Have you ever considered that the biggest mission field in the...
UK Christians Asked to Give Up Their Banks for Lent
Christianity Today 2024-03-11 @ 15:45
Climate activists say finance is a justice issue and moving accounts can have a significant impact. Rosie Venner has been talking a lot about banks. She thinks it matters—to God. "We are...
Ezekiel's Visions, AI's Revisions
Christianity Today 2024-03-11 @ 15:00
I asked ChatGPT to illustrate passages from the Old Testament prophet, and the results raise important questions for the church. Children have an uncanny ability to ask deep questions about things...
New Zealand Christian Bookshop Closures a Sign of the Times
Christianity Today 2024-03-11 @ 15:00
Nearly half of Manna Christian bookstores are shutting down, leaving some without a Christian bookstore in their town and highlighting concerns of misinformation. For the last 25 years, Colin...
Indian State Could Criminalize Praying for the Sick
Christianity Today 2024-03-11 @ 14:34
A proposed ban on "magical healing" is the latest government initiative targeting Christian practice and evangelism in Assam. State lawmakers in India are seeking to curtail evangelism with a ban...
Fear, Grief, then Supernatural Peace: Myanmar Christians Process Draft
Christianity Today 2024-03-08 @ 14:00
While many young people feel helpless over the news of the conscription law, believers see an opening for ministry. When Kyaw Sone, a 27-year-old seminary student in Yangon, Myanmar, heard the news...
Why John MacArthur Is Wrong About MLK
Christianity Today 2024-03-08 @ 14:00
The prominent pastor's claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was "not a Christian" is not only ahistorical. It misses God's heart for justice. When my grandfather died, a portrait of Martin Luther King...
Fasting for God's Kingdom
Christianity Today 2024-03-07 @ 17:00
How the Muslim month of Ramadan transformed my understanding of fasting, prayer, and Lent. The sun was setting on a sweltering late Friday afternoon in Amman, Jordan. Sun filtered through the dust...
Remembering Canadian Politician Brian Mulroney, Who Opened Doors for Evangelicals
Christianity Today 2024-03-07 @ 14:00
The late prime minister welcomed our engagement at a crucial time—and changed my mind about public witness. Brian Mulroney, prime minister of Canada from 1984 to 1993, passed away last week...
SBC Executive Committee Says No Charges Following Federal Investigation
Christianity Today 2024-03-07 @ 02:41
Without offering details on the nature of the Justice Department inquiry, the denomination's administrative entity says it's "grateful" that "no further action" be taken around its response to...
Liberty University Fined $14M Over Campus Safety
Christianity Today 2024-03-06 @ 18:30
Focused on the evangelical school's handling of sexual violence, the federal penalty is by far the largest in the Department of Education's history. The US Department of Education (DOE) announced...
How Evangelicals Became a Voting Bloc
Christianity Today 2024-03-06 @ 17:00
Evangelical voters' focus on policy over character came much earlier than you think. The stakes in the presidential election could not have been higher. The American economy was stagnant. Several...
Studying Scripture Isn't Safe, But It Is Good
Christianity Today 2024-03-06 @ 16:00
As a professor in an evangelical institution, I feel the tension of teaching truths that might offend. When I began my studies at Wesley Theological Seminary, several of upperclassmen warned me...
Global Methodists Run Toward Renewal
Christianity Today 2024-03-06 @ 16:00
On the other side of disaffiliation, traditionalist congregations pursue prayer, revival, and revitalization. June Fulton felt weird sitting in the third pew. At every service since she joined the...
Your Politics May Be Less Bible-Based than You Think
Christianity Today 2024-03-05 @ 17:00
Preston Sprinkle's Exiles is a bracing call to return to Scripture, but some of his specific political applications are dubious. It's not news that modern American Christians are deeply divided...
Brazilian Evangelicals Bring Their Political Playbook to Portugal
Christianity Today 2024-03-05 @ 16:50
Immigrants from South America are a growing force in churches on the other side of the Atlantic. But their electoral initiative is viewed with reservations. As Portugal goes to the polls this...
As France Makes Abortion a Constitutional Right, Evangelicals Seek to Promote Culture of Life
Christianity Today 2024-03-05 @ 16:00
Despite disappointment over the vote, churches see opportunities to love and serve. In a rare joint session at the Palace of Versailles on Monday, lawmakers voted 780 to 72 to enshrine abortion...
How a Chinese Church in America Surmounts Racism and Ethnocentrism
Christianity Today 2024-03-05 @ 14:00
Their Chinese pastor prayed and shared pulpits with Black and white pastors and volunteered to deliver packages to know the multicultural surroundings better. Chinese churches scattered across the...
American Democracy Is in Trouble. No, Not Like That.
Christianity Today 2024-03-04 @ 18:00
Ill-defined talk about Christian nationalism misses a more serious threat: Christian leaders neglecting the real concerns of the laity. The GOP's presidential primary is functionally finished, even...
He Who Has Earbuds, Let Him Hear: Audio Bibles on the Rise
Christianity Today 2024-03-04 @ 15:00
New listening options allow Christians to maximize their time in the Word. The Word of God never returns void—even if you listen to it in traffic, at the gym, or while folding laundry. A...
Don't Overexpose Kids to Mental Health Experts. Or Rule Them Out Completely.
Christianity Today 2024-03-01 @ 16:00
Abigail Shrier's critique of childhood therapy mixes a needful corrective with ideological hyperbole. One of my four-year-old twins has a thing where he pretends he can't do something he's done...
The Meek Inherit Nothing in 'Dune: Part Two'
Christianity Today 2024-03-01 @ 15:00
What happens when a savior chooses not a cross but a sword? Faith and power clash at the core of Dune: Part Two. The film is the second of a trilogy adaptation of the beloved novels by Frank...
YWAM Rallies After 11 Missionaries Killed, 8 Wounded in Tanzania Bus Accident
Christianity Today 2024-03-01 @ 02:50
Darlene Cunningham: "We have not seen a tragedy of this magnitude in all of 'our' history … their deaths create a massive vacuum" for Youth With a Mission. Days after a bus accident claimed 11 of...
Dune Centers Islamic Imagery. These Muslim-World Novels Center Christ.
Christianity Today 2024-02-29 @ 19:00
Drawing from their long experience in the Islamic world, evangelical novelists pen fiction to help Muslims and Americans better see Jesus. Can you imagine if Dune took place in the ocean instead of...
'Hell Is a World Without You' Revisits Early 2000s Youth Group
Christianity Today 2024-02-29 @ 18:00
Journalist Jason Kirk discusses his new novel, turn-of-the-century evangelicalism and deconstruction. Jason Kirk's newly released novel Hell Is a World Without You is not my usual reading fare. Nor...
UK Churches' Outreach to Muslim Migrants Scrutinized After Clapham Attack
Christianity Today 2024-02-29 @ 17:01
Evangelical leader: Ministers' testimonies were never intended to be the "make-or-break" factor in judging asylum applications. A chemical attack that injured a dozen people in the South London...
Confusion, Strategy Shifts, Layoffs: What's Happening at the American Bible Society?
Christianity Today 2024-02-29 @ 16:30
The historic and well-funded organization has seen two years of turmoil: five CEOs, money fumbles, and a pullback from global work. It is searching for a fresh start. The 208-year-old American...
More Evangelicals See Immigrants as a Threat and Economic Drain
Christianity Today 2024-02-28 @ 17:46
Survey: Even with growing concerns over the past two years, most still favor immigration reform and say the church has a responsibility to help. American evangelicals have complex perspectives on...
Does Naming and Shaming Help the Cause of Indian Christians?
Christianity Today 2024-02-28 @ 16:08
Local and international activists discuss Voice of the Martyrs escalating the country's religious freedom status to "restricted nation." The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) has placed India in its...
Wang Zhiming: Miao Martyr Memorialized in Westminster Abbey
Christianity Today 2024-02-28 @ 15:00
He was tortured for his faith but remained steadfast through the Cultural Revolution. Westminster Abbey in London, the exclusive chapel of the British royal family, has served as the site for the...
 
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