A lifestyle of violence and addiction nearly destroyed me, but it brought me to the foot of the cross. I grew up in Kansas City, Kansas, in a home filled with chaos. Home was an ever-changing...

The Chinese government has officially ended its international adoption program, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning announced Thursday, ending hopes for hundreds of US families who were matched...

Not long ago, I visited my 99-year-old father and 97-year-old mother. My dad had just passed his driver's test again, and a year before that, he published yet another book. He told me he wants to...

Depending on your circles, mentioning "public school" may elicit strong reactions. Many Christians in America avidly allege its degeneracy, while many others fiercely defend its merits. And although...

In 1929, a Kansas preacher named Charles Sheldon had to get something off his chest. Best known as the author of In His Steps (1896)—a novel that encouraged Christians to ask, "What would Jesus do...

Amid a spike in violence against religious minorities in Bangladesh, a national council of Buddhists, Hindus and Christians is renewing a campaign for the Muslim-majority South Asian nation to remove...

How do Christians live faithfully and as good neighbors in a world we don't control? In 2020, Tim Keller and I coedited a book titled Uncommon Ground. Our project convened a group of evangelical...

A group of evangelical broadcasters who hosted Donald Trump at their national conference earlier this year are suing the Internal Revenue Service over the so-called Johnson Amendment, a tax law...

The church desperately needs both good gospel works and good gospel workers for the Good News message. The apostle in his letter to Titus makes a clear connection between faith and practice. Why is...

I've been in the pro-life movement for 40 years. My wife founded the Austin Crisis Pregnancy Center (ACPC) in 1984 and later chaired the national umbrella group for such centers, Care Net. I chaired...

On a recent Sunday morning, Gateway Church, one of the largest nondenominational megachurches in the United States, sprang to life. Golf carts ferried people from distant parking spaces to the front...

I always assumed my sons would go to college. My husband and I were indelibly formed by our own college years of deep reading, endless discussion, and applying what we'd learned in the classroom to...

Nearly five years after a German pastor sparked controversy with comments about homosexuality, the legal dispute appears to be over with a settlement of 5,000 euros (about $5,550 USD). Olaf Latzel...

If you feel like it's hard to keep up with the cascade of new worship music, you're not alone. The industry is producing new releases at a quicker clip, and the typical lifespan of a worship song—th...

Rwanda has shut down more than 8,000 places of worship in the past two months, and now its president has proposed making churches pay taxes on their income. The country's crackdown on houses of...

"If you don't stand for pro-life principles, you don't get pro-life votes." That's what Lila Rose, a leading pro-life activist, posted Monday on social media, in response to the latest move from...

On June 25, 2024, Eastern Nazarene College announced that it will close at the end of the year. I specify the date because it matters: The news came well after faculty members had begun...

Next week's Labor Day holiday honors the contributions workers make to society and celebrates the power and goodness of human work. But the historical roots of the holiday—which is grounded in...

The first episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, season 2, are out August 29 on Amazon Prime. Christianity Today asked three writers to screen the season in advance and identify a...

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. Not long ago, a woman told me about a conflict she was having with a fellow member of her church. Conflict might be the wrong...

When the waiter brought out my long-awaited high tea that day, I didn't expect I'd still be grieving it decades later. I was 21 and enjoying my first "real" spring break during a debt-building week...

There is a beautiful garden in perfect bloom, existing somewhere outside of time and place. There, four pagan gods have gathered together for an intense, six-day Platonic symposium about the nature...

It's said you should never meet your heroes. But Joni Eareckson Tada is different. I first heard Joni speak when I was 15 years old, sitting in the balcony level of the Waterfront Hall in Belfast. I...

Around 4,400 Para athletes will vie for victory in 22 sports at the summer Paralympics, which run from August 28 to September 8 in Paris. The Paralympics use a system of classification to ensure that...

A series of policies recently enacted by the Nicaraguan government will significantly impact the activities of churches and ministries operating in the country. Viewed by religious freedom...

In the last two decades, over 400,000 South Africans have left their country to set up a new life abroad in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. They are mostly highly...

Indonesia is an enchanted culture full of folklore involving ghosts, demons, and djinns (shape-shifting spirits from Arabian and Muslim mythology). These stories usually involve a moral of some kind...

A few years ago, a widow approached a church in Uganda to ask for help. After discussing her situation, the church council recommended they give her food. The pastor, however, encouraged the leaders...

It's no secret that theological education is in a state of crisis today. In recent years, faculty layoffs and the downsizing of evangelical seminaries and Christian colleges in the make it hard to...

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes, a viral video can explain a cultural moment better than a stack of sociology journals. This is one of those...

Even if you have kids in private education—or no kids at all—you can be the hands and feet of Christ on campus. Recent years have seen a large shift away from public education in...

With few nones entering the US, religious immigrants are stalling secularization. The world's 280 million immigrants have greater shares of Christians, Muslims, and Jews than the general population...

Christian counselor Brad Hambrick talks about how we deal with our own fury in heated times. Brad Hambrick oversees counseling ministries at Summit Church, a North Carolina church with 14 campuses...

Christian counselors wish more people would acknowledge their rage in a boiling cultural moment. More Americans than ever are seeking help for mental health issues like depression and anxiety. But...

I joined Christianity Today not as a trite multicultural experiment but to contribute to the wonderful weirdness of building the kingdom. The word weird is weirdly being thrown around by...

How sending agencies are trying to bring overseas workers off the perfect Christian "pedestal" and into a counseling chair. The long-standing stigma around mental health care has faded from many...

While Hindus publicly confront mob violence against their community, Christians are apprehensive about speaking out. Bangladesh's religious minorities have reported looting, arson, and...

Survivors, advocates, and pastors call for "true repentance" among religious groups that ran schools and homes between 1950 and 1999. Not long after Frances Tagaloa accepted Christ at 16, she...

I'm a missiologist and a migrant who lives in Liverpool. Can Christians who have served overseas stand up for my community? Though born in Malawi, for the past eight years, I have made Liverpool my...

The Church of England minister wrote "Tell Out, My Soul," "Lord, for the Years," "Sing a New Song," and "Faithful Vigil Ended." Timothy Dudley-Smith, author of "Tell Out, My Soul," "Lord, for the...

The local evangelical alliance that fought government proposals in 2016 now says it supports regulations to prevent a future Shakahola. A year after more than 400 members of a Christian sect...

The private school boom corresponds with a bigger move away from colonial-era denominations. Neville Mlambo, 65, a retired missionary, shakes his head. His United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe (UCCZ...

A PCA congregation gives up their Sunday spots after weeks of protests from cyclists. If all goes well, worshippers at Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia will be able to park on the streets...

A number of high-profile Christians have converted to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. Why should we stay? In recent decades, there has been a significant and sustained trend of Protestants...

Broken bonds and burned bridges can't be mended by imaginary networks of relationships. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. I don't know how to say, 'I'm lonely...

How Jesus and the Powers, cowritten with Michael F. Bird, calls Christians into the political sphere. In a year seeing over 50 countries at the polls—half of which could shift geopolitical...

Global Christian organizations scour the world in search of the best conference sites. This September, about 5,000 Christians will assemble in Incheon, South Korea, for the Lausanne Movement's...

Jesus told us not to worry, but worry is our culture's parenting default. It's harming our kids. As my daughter dangled 10 feet above the ground, legs wrapped around the thick, smooth trunk of a...

My return to the United States brought grief and loneliness as I realized I was different from my peers. On an early morning flight out of the country, I claimed the window seat. Alongside the...

Natural disaster costs have overwhelmed the market for carriers, which are raising rates or dropping policies for congregations in high-risk areas. John Parks was taking his first sabbatical in 40...