“Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light,” warns the apostle Paul (2 Cor. 11:14). So too in J. R. R. Tolkien’s mythology does the dark lord Sauron sometimes appear in “fair form.” In the guise ...

Exodus reminds us that our work can be exploitative, idolatrous, or kingdom oriented. Nevertheless, we still often struggle to hold together both the powerful possibilities and deeply dysfunctional ...

The “demographic cliff” will force schools to cut jobs or shut down—but how they do it matters. On June 25, 2024, Eastern Nazarene College announced that it will close at the end of the year. I ...

A Christian reconciliation group in Israel and Palestine warned that war would come. Now the war threatens their relevance. The Israel-Palestine conflict is a collision of competing stories, each with ...

US Religion Census finds independent congregations have surged in the last decade. One year into the biggest US refugee wave since the Vietnam War, Christians are trying to buy Afghan immigrants more ...

Pastor and author Jared C. Wilson shares what America’s first ordained African American taught him about facing hardship in ...

Survey: Majority Asian churches are half as likely to have leaders under 30. CT’s outgoing Asia editor recalls how God led him to America, toward the Christian faith, onto the internet, and outward to ...

Christians can love America—with all of its flaws and failures—precisely because we don’t expect it to be the kingdom of God. Answering Stephen Wolfe’s arguments for blood, soil, and sedition. Richard ...

As digital enticements proliferate, Michelangelo and the apostle Paul teach us to seek humbler, faithful art forms. How the early church’s example of public witness helps us avoid the extremes of ...

Texas lawsuit claims that the minor was a victim of a serial predator as well as student leaders in the campus ministry Chi ...

The raised index finger of levitating surfer Gabriel Medina is the latest sign that sports success has made Brazilian evangelicals less marginalized and more confident. Evangelicals call for peace ...

Church discipline conjures images of witch trials and inquisitions, but, practiced with humility and the goal of restoration, it should be a regular practice of the church. As the visible body of ...