Conservative Methodists, Unite
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 04 Mai 2024 19:31:16 EDT - 1After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination. That was fast. In the first General Conference since the most conservative congregations disaffil...
‘Wildcat’ Is as Unsettling as Flannery O’Connor Would Have Wanted
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:31:23 EDT - 1Ethan Hawke has made a movie as scandalous as one of the writer’s short stories. Why not write something that “a lot, a lot, of people like?” Regina O’Connor asks her daughter, the writer Flannery O’Connor, in the ...
United Methodists Strike Ban on LGBTQ Clergy
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:31:23 EDT - 0After years of disagreement and the departure of thousands of churches, the change passed without debate. United Methodists meeting for their top legislative assembly Wednesday overwhelmingly overturned a measure that barred gay clergy from...
The Basketball Team Created to Represent God
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:31:23 EDT - 1The Dallas Mavericks were intended to be the first Christian team in the NBA. At the time, 1980 did not seem like a great year to launch a new professional sports franchise. Interest rates were high. The Iranian hostage crisis dominated nat...
The Anxious Church
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:31:23 EDT - 1Why the church has struggled to address mental illness well and how we can care better. Nearly five years ago, a high profile pastor—one who had shared bravely and publicly about his battle with depression—took his own life. In ...
If Panama Closes the Darién Gap, Would Evangelicals Care?
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 02 Mai 2024 19:31:23 EDT - 1Migrant rights have been off radar for many Panamanian Christians. But as pressures increase, some are speaking out ahead of this weekend’s general elections. On May 5, Panamanians will vote for a new president. The outcome of this electi...
Was Paul a Slave?
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 01 Mai 2024 19:31:12 EDT - 1The surprising argument that Saul of Tarsus was born into bondage. Of the many letters the apostle Paul wrote, few survived. We have a good deal of his communication to churches as a whole—letters to groups of believers in particular ...
Particular Wrongs Need Particular Remedies
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 01 Mai 2024 19:31:12 EDT - 0Every sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently. Christian theology consistently holds together truths that seem to want to fall apart: Jesus is fully God and f...
Finding a (Real) Christian College
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 01 Mai 2024 19:31:12 EDT - 0A professor explains why examining a school’s doctrinal statement isn’t enough. When I speak at churches around the country, the conversation after my talks often turns to the state of Christian higher education. I’m a professor a...
Taylor Swift Can Do Whatever She Wants
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 30 Abr 2024 19:30:51 EDT - 1But true liberty, in art and in life, is created by constraints. Taylor Swift answers to no one. Not music industry executives: Her songs returned to TikTok in the middle of a licensing dispute between the app and her label. Not mayors: Whe...
Interview: Luci Shaw Wants to Open the Windows
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 30 Abr 2024 19:30:51 EDT - 1In Reversing Entropy, the 95 year old poet looks lovingly at creation. Luci Shaw is a legend in Christian literary circles. Her many volumes of poetry—named for rivers and clay, the color green, the glint of seaglass—speak to th...
Holy Handouts: Venezuela’s Maduro Woos Evangelical Voters with Gifts and Cash
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 30 Abr 2024 19:30:51 EDT - 0As the presidential election approaches, the incumbent government seeks to win support with aid to churches and pastors. In many countries, politicians try to win over religious voters by highlighting areas of shared interest between their ...
Where Worship Doesn’t Translate
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 3How groups like Hillsong learned to let go of the literal in favor of creative collaboration. The refrain “He is for you” doesn’t translate neatly into Spanish. In the English version of Elevation Worship’s song &ldq...
What Antisemitic Campus Chants Tell Us About This Angry Era
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 3The rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. As Columbia University and other elite campuses erupt into protests against the United States’ ...
India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 1The government plans to close its porous border with Myanmar to boost security, separating ethnic groups that straddle the boundary. Ngamreichan Tuithung runs a Christian boarding school that sits right at the border of India’s Manipu...
Care for the Environment Is Biblical. It’s Also a Witness to Environmentalists.
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 3Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co laborers. I love nature documentaries, especially those narrated by David Attenborough. Whether watching with my childr...
After Schism, United Methodists Vote to Restructure Denomination
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 2The plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same sex marriage and other theological issues. The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to ...
Your Church Drummer Has More and Less to Do These Days
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1How the keeper of the beat is adapting to shifts in worship music. It was a church drummer’s worst nightmare. In the middle of a service, David Wagner was playing “Heaven Invade” with his worship band when his in ear monit...
Let the Cultural Christians Come unto Jesus
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1The world is realizing anew that our faith has tangible benefits. This is an opportunity for the gospel. As Christianity continues to decline in the West, the broader world has begun to notice something’s missing. There seems to be a ...
If This Ain’t Country, Expand Your Canon
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1Beyoncé’s right. Whether listening to Cowboy Carter or reading theology, diversity is a good thing. I wasn’t planning to listen to Cowboy Carter, the eighth studio album from American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. I’v...
Hold Your Clapbacks
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 23 Abr 2024 19:31:20 EDT - 1C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique. I’d just finished reading one of C. S. Lewis’s lesser known books, Studies in Words, when I happened upon a rece...
Eco-anxiety Is Crippling Gen Z. How Can We Move Forward?
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 23 Abr 2024 19:31:20 EDT - 1Christians can disciple each other toward action, prayer, and hope. I’m 26 and mostly full of enthusiasm for the future. But when I think about the heat waves, floods, and humanitarian crises that I’ll likely experience in my li...
Panic Won’t Protect the Planet Well
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 22 Abr 2024 19:31:11 EDT - 1I grew up as a climate change denier. Now I understand we must care for God’s creation and people alike. I grew up believing that Earth Day was a liberal holiday. Climate change was a lie, a ploy by leftist political activists to dismantl...
Let the Seas Rise and Feed the Poor
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 22 Abr 2024 19:31:11 EDT - 0Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian. Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation in the world. It’s made up of an astounding 17,000 islands, with 70 percent ...
‘Bluey’: A Heavenly Vision of Life Together
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 19 Abr 2024 19:31:18 EDT - 1The popular kids series reminds parents that playfulness is next to godliness. When my oldest daughter, Elaine, was four, I watched her chase a soap bubble around the yard, utterly spellbound, and it struck me as a tiny window into how God ...