Cut off from the world, Cambodian churches emerged with new opportunities and challenges. When the world locked down in early 2020, orders to Cambodia’s thriving garment factories dropped, shutting down factories and leaving more than 50,000 people jobless. The Cambodian government’s quick action kept COVID-19 at bay that year, yet the economic impact was devastating…

Kids’ addictions to their phones isn’t a legislative issue. It’s a discipleship one. As summer fast approaches, likely so will increased screen time as school lets out. But new data and a bipartisan consensus that phones are bad for kids may give parents pause. A growing body of research, though certainly not indisputable, has pointed…

Unless seminaries leave the ivory tower for local leaders in the public square. Like these ones have. I recently received a handwritten letter from a pastor in India. His name is Roy, but I didn’t know this gentleman, and we had never corresponded. Somehow he contacted me and told me about the two congregations he…

Not everything that’s a sin is a crime—let alone one punishable by death. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. In this day of social media mobs and troll-fueled extremism, it’s not unusual for a politician to be digitally attacked for being too weak and “not really one of us”—on a seemingly…

How did a name the Puritans made popular take off in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese immigrant circles? As a freshman at Biola University, Grace Brannon (née Kim), 28, encountered many Korean and Korean American women with the same first name. When several of them became part of the same friend group, they started to call…

Harrison Scott Key’s latest book gives a tragi-comic take on the Christian humility required to stay married. “What happened was, my wife for a billion years—the mother of our three daughters, a woman who’s spent just about every Sunday of her life in church—snuck off and found herself a boyfriend. … He has a decorative…

Manifesting isn’t the answer. Consenting to holiness is. Recently, a psychologist at New York University wondered if young adults were not saving money for the future because they felt like they were putting it away for a stranger. So Hal Ersner-Hershfield conducted an experiment, giving some college students a real mirror and others virtual reality…

One formed me. The other entertained me. On a sunny March afternoon in 2014, I found myself jumping on the L train from Manhattan to Williamsburg to interview a young, urban pastor named Carl Lentz in his luxury waterfront apartment. A trendy evangelical magazine wanted me to profile him. With its nightclub venues and award-winning…