The Sunday after authorities killed people protesting a finance bill, many pastors call for justice. Among the many people William Ruto thanked after winning Kenya’s 2022 presidential election were religious leaders, significant numbers of whom had enthusiastically campaigned for the career politician. “I am sure their prayers will not be in vain,” Ruto said, considered…
How evangelicals are responding to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling on presidential immunity. In the Bible, ancient Israel wrestled with how to restrain corrupt rulers. A modern-day version of that political question went before the US Supreme Court, which ruled Monday on when a president can be prosecuted for criminal behavior. The case revolved around…
Jesus asked if we want to get well. But do we? At 24, I was a recent Bible college graduate and married a whopping six days when I began my first ministry as a hospital chaplain. I had never seen a dead body before. I had no experience with grief. I was way out of…
Two new books consider whether one depends on the other. Constitutional scholar C. L. Skach begins How to Be a Citizen: Learning to Be Civil Without the State with an engrossing account of her own foray into crafting the law of a land. The land in question was American-occupied Iraq, to which Skach traveled in 2008,…
As a newlywed and a new mother, I built exactly the life I wanted. The only thing missing was everyone else. I don’t remember when I realized I didn’t have a community. Perhaps it was one Sunday after our church service when, holding my nine-month-old son, I stepped from the nursing room into the sanctuary…
This year’s most closely watched voting bloc is reshaping the presidential contest—and the church. The congregation that gathers at Alliance Church doesn’t need to be told to greet their neighbors. Dotted with West Texas flair—cowboy boots, shiny belt buckles, and big hair—they come with hands outstretched. Together, they sing out about God’s healing and rescue,…
Fifty years ago, the Lausanne Covenant’s solution to rampant division in evangelical ranks wasn’t uniformity. In the 2000 movie Memento, protagonist Leonard Shelby has a specific brain injury that prevents him from forming new long-term memories. He can remember information for 30 seconds to a minute at most, but then he forgets everything. Leonard’s disconnect…
French evangelicals are working together to show people Jesus at 2024 Olympic Games. For many people who live in Paris, the Summer Olympics are going to be kind of a problem. In fact, though the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad are not scheduled to start until the end of July, Parisians were already bracing themselves…
Most ministers were silent about Watergate. Why was one evangelical pastor different? Only one minister spoke up. There were many clergy in and out of the White House in those years, as Richard Nixon scrambled to cover up the fact that his men had broken into the Democratic Party headquarters and bugged the Watergate office…
How the look and feel of the magazine have changed with the times. Christianity Today has changed a bit since the first issue was published in October 1956. The look is different. The feel is different. We’ve chosen a different font. One of the first editors of Christianity Today noted (with a hint of despair)…
