A revised edition of Reformer’s translation ranked among 2022 bestsellers. Only 4 percent of Germans say they read the Bible every day, according to a poll conducted by Insa-Consulere and the German Christian news agency IDEA. A full 70 percent say they never read it at all. And yet in 2022—500 years after its initial…
Christians and politicians are once again calling for authorities to protect citizens from dangerous faith leaders. In the forest compound owned by the founder of Good News International Church, Kenyan police have discovered dozens of starving people and 65 bodies buried in unmarked graves. They arrested two people who weren’t starving: the church’s leader, Paul…
Trump’s arrest is another reminder that presidents don’t have political immunity in a democracy In the past couple weeks since Trump’s arrest, I’ve seen some reactions from his conservative supporters along these lines: “If they can go after Trump, they can also go after you”—which is the whole point of the rule of law. Donald…
Administrators are seeking ways to “be alert and sober minded,” adding specialized training, personnel, and physical upgrades. Last month’s shooting at The Covenant School was not only the deadliest in Nashville—it was also the most high-profile attack on a church school in the US. The incident has shaken views of Christian schools as safe havens…
As Christians, we often define ourselves by ideology, but Jesus calls us to a deeper sense of identity. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes a perfectly good word loses its meaning so much that it ought to be set aside, at least temporarily. Calling someone a “fundamentalist” in 1923—when the…
With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church? When worship leader Jonathan Anderson selects the song “Lion and the Lamb” for a service, he thinks about what it means for his multigenerational Assemblies of God church to sing…
And other news briefs from Christians around the world. Contemporary Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman has joined the ranks of George Strait and Madonna as one of the few musicians who have topped radio charts 50 times. Chapman’s song “Don’t Lose Heart,” written about the struggle to hang on to faith in a time…
As an evangelical couple fights adoption law, Native American Christians point to holistic answers. Carol Bremer-Bennett loved her adoptive parents. And the Dutch Reformed family in Michigan was intentional about studying and celebrating her Navajo culture and history from the time they welcomed her into their family in 1969. But when Bremer-Bennett grew up and…
We must be wary of wrongly using the biblical command in order to silence victims of abuse. Forgiveness is the heartbeat of salvation history and the virtue that should mark the followers of Jesus. But those who seek to control and manipulate others can twist even the very heart of the gospel for their perverted…
A new history challenges perceptions that the two are either completely autonomous or completely at odds. Nicholas Spencer’s latest book, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion, opens and closes with references to Stephen Jay Gould’s depiction of science and religion as nonoverlapping magisteria, or “NOMA.” By this, he meant that science is about…
