The best and worst of religious power
It has been a month now since Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country’s forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine. With the horror of war, the world has seen the power of Christian compassion …
It has been a month now since Russian President Vladimir Putin used his country’s forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine. With the horror of war, the world has seen the power of Christian compassion …
More and more Christians are visibly involved in politics. But that shouldn’t necessarily be the goal, conservative columnist David French says. In an essay for The Dispatch, French says that he used to be overjoyed …
Michelangelo, Tolkien, Milton, Bach, Bonhoeffer: painter, author, poet, composer, theologian, respectively. What do they all have in common? They stormed the gates of hell with their artistic works and creative thoughts which influenced their contemporary …
The materialism of transhumanism is incompatible with the spirituality of Christianity. That’s the argument that lawyer and ethicist Wesley J. Smith put forward in in a March 24 essay in First Things, a journal about …
Across Northern California, Christian churches face a dilemma of aging followers and shrinking congregations. Bob Smietana of Religion News Service wonders what will become of the now empty buildings once filled with the faithful. Many …
Americans are less religious than ever before. In a nation long associated with Christianity, nearly a third of United States citizens now have no religious affiliation. Christopher Tremoglie of The Washington Examiner writes that spirituality …
How should feminism interact with theology? The kneejerk, stereotypical reaction is that the two are incompatible, that Christianity is regressive or outdated, simply due to the age of the sacred texts. Mitch Randal of Good …
The chief of sinners? Not this guy. An arrogant hypocrite? Definitely that guy. Well, it depends who you ask. That guy or his non-Christian neighbor. A new study published by Ipsos in partnership with The …
Diana Chandler of Baptist Press writes that the California Southern Baptist Convention is looking for a new executive director. The Southern Baptist Convention remains one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, and …
A Trinidadian fishing boat named the Crystal Eye sank in the Caribbean in the early hours of Sunday morning. That no one died, the fishermen claim, is an actual miracle. Captain James Kirwan, Azim Baksh, …