The Moral Confusion Around Trump’s Felony Conviction
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:31:20 EDT - 1Among the former president’s antagonists and admirers alike, there is a great deal of calling evil good and good evil. The homepage of The New York Times announced the conviction of Donald Trump on 34 felony charges Thursday afternoon in ...
Pakistan’s Christians Fear Forced Marriages. Punjab Court Ruling Brings New Hope
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:31:20 EDT - 1Church leaders and human rights experts weigh in on whether raising the legal age is sufficient in shielding minors. Nearly one in five (18.3%) Pakistani girls are married before age 18, according to data from 2017 to 2018, with over half b...
Kwame Bediako Still Defines the Debate on African Culture and Christianity
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:31:20 EDT - 1Seven leaders weigh in on the late Ghanaian scholar’s provocative legacy 20 years after his best known book. What Luther and Calvin are for evangelical Christians globally, Kwame Bediako is for many African evangelicals. From his dramatic...
India’s Christians Brace for 2024 Election Results
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:31:20 EDT - 1Church leaders mobilized prayer for parliament and state elections, knowing the question wasn’t whether Hindu nationalists would win but the size of their mandate. As India’s monumental elections finally come to an end this week, al...
Died: Lin Chih-Ping, Taiwan’s ‘Fool for Life’ Who Shared ‘Cosmic Light’ Through Eclectic Ministry
Christianity Today Magazine - Sáb 01 Jun 2024 01:31:20 EDT - 1The entrepreneur and social services leader had a unique vision for sharing the gospel and reaching people holistically. Peter Chih Ping Lin (???), who launched a Christian magazine for those outside the church that grew into a sprawling, e...
The Chosen Season 4 Available for Streaming—‘Finally’
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 31 Mai 2024 01:31:24 EDT - 3The TV series had to wait months to go up online due to a legal dispute with its former partner Angel Studios over content licensing. After months of delay and a legal dispute, the first episode of The Chosen, Season Four, will drop on the ...
How to Flourish as a Creative Minority
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 31 Mai 2024 01:31:24 EDT - 1An Orthodox Jew advises American evangelicals on how to keep—and pass on—the faith in an increasingly pagan culture. Consider this a dispatch from my neighborhood to yours. Christianity Today doesn’t typically publish Orth...
Died: Sam Butcher, Artist Who Created Precious Moments
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 31 Mai 2024 01:31:24 EDT - 1His porcelain figurines sold millions while he built a church inspired by the Sistine Chapel. Sam Butcher sometimes struggled to explain why Precious Moments figurines, his signature artistic creation, became such a cultural phenomenon. Hal...
After Covering Global Disasters for Decades, Nicholas Kristof Is More Hopeful Than Ever
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 31 Mai 2024 01:31:24 EDT - 1The New York Times reporter’s memoir can refine our perspective on pursuing justice in a fallen world. I’ve got my top summer reading recommendation ready for you. In fact, I’m recommending you buy two copies of the book, Nich...
‘I Thought I’d Be Further Along by Now’
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 30 Mai 2024 03:30:09 EDT - 1An excerpt on risk, worship, and spiritual growth from The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space between Our Beliefs and Experience of God. We often think we should be further along in our life of faith than we actually are. This tendency i...
Exploited South African Miners Turn to Churches for Help
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 30 Mai 2024 03:30:09 EDT - 1Pastors help widows take on delayed pensions and negotiate peace amid violent labor disputes. Like other widows of South African mine workers, Jane Anele was doubly wronged by the industry. The 58 year old lost her husband to coal mining a ...
Pastors Will Try to Spare South Africa’s Tense Elections from Violence
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 28 Mai 2024 09:30:06 EDT - 2Oscar Siwali is mobilizing conflict mediators as the country goes to the polls. He only wishes his organization could train more. Oscar Siwali remembers watching Nelson Mandela’s triumphant walk as he left prison after 27 years. In 19...
What I Would Change After 30 Years of Marriage
Christianity Today Magazine - Dom 26 Mai 2024 15:30:06 EDT - 2I should have invited Ruth to our wedding—to acknowledge how much our ordinary moments point to the story of Christ. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. On Monday of next week, my wife, Maria,...
World Vision Appeals Employment Discrimination Case to Ninth Circuit
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 24 Mai 2024 19:30:07 EDT - 1Federal appeals courts are starting to wrestle with how nondiscrimination laws apply to religious organizations when it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity. After sustaining a court defeat in November, this week Christian humani...
Mad Max Does Genesis
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 24 Mai 2024 19:30:07 EDT - 1Furiosa begins with a retelling of the biblical Fall. After its apocalypse comes something new. One of the first lines of dialogue in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is a question: “As the world falls around us, how must we brave its crueltie...
What Believers Can and Can’t Affirm in Those Who Affirm Same-Sex Marriage
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 23 Mai 2024 19:31:05 EDT - 3Rebecca McLaughlin takes care to filter their legitimate claims from their flawed assumptions. Maybe you believe that the Bible opposes same sex sexual relationships. Where in the Bible would you begin to explain your view? Maybe you doubt ...
Iranian Christians Contemplate God’s Justice after President’s Death in Crash
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 23 Mai 2024 19:31:05 EDT - 2Believers in the diaspora reference Daniel and the “writing on the wall” as many mull if helicopter accident portends more changes to come. Iranian Christians in the diaspora shed few tears over the death of President Ebrahim Raisi, kil...
In ‘3 Body Problem,’ Our Days Are Numbered
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 23 Mai 2024 19:31:05 EDT - 2The Netflix adaptation of an acclaimed Chinese sci fi series is anxious about time. Christians don’t have to be. Time is running out in Netflix’s 3 Body Problem. An alien race, the San Ti, announces that they will arrive on Earth in...
In Succor and Silence
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 23 Mai 2024 19:31:05 EDT - 2On praying past the end of silver linings to a God who often does not answer as I hope. Around the bonfire at church camp on the Oregon coast, we sang “River of Life” to get warmed up, and then, to mellow the mood for the gospel...
As More Brazilian Pop Stars Praise God with Their Lips, Does It Matter If Hearts Are Far?
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 23 Mai 2024 19:31:05 EDT - 2Gospel music is soaring in popularity in Brazil, leading artists with little Christian background to release worship songs and pastors to mull motives. “Dwell in me, Jesus,” sings Ana Castela in “Agradeço” (I ...
The Flannery O’Connor Novel That Might Have Been
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 22 Mai 2024 19:30:57 EDT - 1Her final work was continually revised but never finished. Can we know what she was aiming to achieve? Flannery O’Connor was an inveterate rewriter, working, reworking, and deleting episodes from her stories and novels. Her archives, ...
DOJ Issues First Indictment in Southern Baptist Investigation
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 22 Mai 2024 19:30:57 EDT - 1A former official at Southwestern Seminary has been charged with falsifying records in the federal probe into the denomination’s abuse response. A former Southern Baptist seminary professor and interim provost has been indicted on a charg...
Died: Marshall Allen, Christian Muckraker Who Held the Health Care Industry Accountable
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 22 Mai 2024 19:30:57 EDT - 1His reporting was marked by a cheerful determination to uncover truth, which friends and coworkers attributed to his faith. Marshall Allen, an investigative journalist who insisted that uncovering truth was fundamental to Christian faith, d...
Anglican Bishop Removed as Clergy Call for Transparency in Investigation
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 22 Mai 2024 19:30:57 EDT - 1While the ACNA hasn’t offered public updates on a trial for Stewart Ruch’s abuse response, Todd Atkinson, a bishop appointed to assist him, has been deposed over inappropriate relationships. Nearly three years ago, Bishop Stewart Ruch o...
Moral Failures by Christian Leaders Are a Huge Problem. Can New Standards Help?
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 21 Mai 2024 19:31:22 EDT - 1ECFA is adding leadership integrity to its accountability criteria. The accreditation agency for over 2,700 evangelical nonprofits wants to raise its standards to address “one of the greatest financial risks” posed to churches a...