God’s rule is inherently true and doesn’t require that we force it on anyone. A liberal acquaintance told me recently that while he generally dislikes evangelicals, he doesn’t find me to be as bad as the rest: “At least you don’t rant about wanting to establish a theocracy!” I decided to accept what he said…

A government built on the assumption of its leader’s good character is a government badly built. The Supreme Court’s Monday ruling on presidential immunity from criminal prosecution did not offer boundless endorsement of the executive officeholder’s prerogative to do whatever he wants without fear of consequence. But it came far too close, holding that the…

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…

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)…

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…

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…