As faithful Twitter users drop the platform, writers, leaders, and ministries adapt to a new social landscape. Scrolling through our Twitter X feeds over the last several weeks, we’ve seen familiar Christian names, from David French to Sam Allberry, signing off the platform. Many more are wondering aloud whether they want to stay much longer….

The novel and Netflix show explore scriptural themes of light and dark—and the cosmic reign of Christ. My wife and I spent our honeymoon in St. Lucia, an island known for its two iconic mountains that rise from the Caribbean like majestic guardians. At breakfast one morning, with the mountains behind us, I remember asking…

New research shows most ministers under 34 saw job responsibilities change and worried about their mental health. Michael Prevett spent his first few months in ministry measuring out the distance between chairs. The 33-year-old discipleship pastor says that, to a lot of his peers, going into ministry at all “sounds a little crazy.” But it…

Former pastor of Gaza Baptist Church—stuck in Egypt since start of the war—scrambles to evacuate wife and children as they struggle to survive at St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church. Trapped in Gaza, Janet Maher has not had a shower for two weeks. She feeds her three children one meal a day, often no more than bread…

She championed both abolition and women’s rights. And she wasn’t afraid to challenge advocates of either cause. In the most recent issue of The Atlantic, historian Clint Smith examines the life of an escaped slave named Josiah Henson. He asks, “Why weren’t American students being taught about Henson when they learned about [Harriet] Tubman, or…

How he purged the voices in my head telling me I was worthless. I grew up in a loving middle-class family in Lubbock, Texas, a farming and ranching community famous for raising cotton, corn, peanuts, and cattle. As a five-year-old, I experienced a severe trauma while walking to school with a classmate after eating lunch…

The fallout of the Israel-Hamas war at US universities, including antisemitic attacks, is roiling the Ivy Leagues especially. Across the country, college campus tensions over the Israel-Hamas war are high, and students connected to the war’s fallout—especially Jewish students facing more threats on campus now—report struggling with sadness, fear, and anger. Campus ministry leaders say…

Revelations of a scandalous amicus brief raise the question: Who’s driving the SBC? There’s a story my family has told since before I was born about my great-uncle Johnny. When his four daughters were teenagers, the family took a long trip in which they had to stop in a familiar town for dinner. About 30…