In an age of functional atheism, ‘tis the season for traditional fasting and prayer. “I’m giving up God for Lent,” said the post on my social media feed. I had to reread the line again while my brain did a bit of reorienting. Wasn’t the person who posted this a Christian? For some believers, the…
After leaving Maverick City Music, the singer is launching his own label focused on authenticity in a field increasingly crowded by celebrity. Grammy Award–winning worship artist Dante Bowe is starting a new chapter. After years with some of today’s most influential worship music collectives, Bethel Music and Maverick City Music, Bowe has launched TRUE Music,…
Anonymous Christmas condemnation of invasion offers insight into antiwar movement as it seeks reconciliation with Ukrainian believers—who want names. On an Advent Sunday in a small Protestant church in St. Petersburg, a Russian pastor nervously approached the pulpit. While his senior leadership was publicly neutral about the war, he was about to preach from the…
The former pastor of ex-SBC Saddleback shares why his views on women changed. Last week, Russell Moore interviewed the recently retired pastor Rick Warren—author of The Purpose Driven Life—on his show. They discussed his pastoral transition and plans for the future, as well as the disfellowshipping of Saddleback Church from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)…
Instead of prosecutors trying to win arguments, we’re supposed to be defending what actually matters. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. “Why are we on defense,” one frustrated culture warrior asked me, referring to some religious freedom issue, “when we should be on offense?” As I’ve written elsewhere, I find this…
And among the worst-rated by everybody else. When asked about their views of the country’s biggest religious groups, most Americans don’t have strong feelings either way—except when it comes to evangelical Christians. In a Pew Research Center report released Wednesday, 27 percent of Americans expressed an unfavorable view of evangelicals, compared to 10 percent who…
Effective biblical engagement must be about more than one’s personal experience with Scripture. The disconnect crystalized 12 years ago when I (Dru) started teaching an introductory Old Testament class to freshmen. Every semester, devout Christian students would report to me that they read their Bibles every day. They could even recite key verses from memory….
We must envision a kingdom that outlasts us. We all know the first words of Genesis: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Far fewer of us can recall the last words of Genesis: “They embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt” (50:26, ESV throughout). The first sentence…
Our true comfort comes in trusting in the one who holds tomorrow. It’s one of the most quoted verses of the Bible: “Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Echoing the words of Jesus to leave tomorrow’s worries for tomorrow, Philippians…
Both leaders have huge followings. But how well do we really know them? It is an awesome burden which the biographer takes up,” writes Elisabeth Elliot in her 1968 biography of missionary R. Kenneth Strachan. Any such project is “a judgment—upon the subject most obviously, upon the biographer himself, and upon any who were associated…
