An exodus of educated and generous families has pinched ministry budgets—and threatened the lavish lifestyles of mega-rich pastors. In the last two decades, over 400,000 South Africans have left their country to set up a new life abroad in the US, Europe, Canada, Australia, and the United Arab Emirates. They are mostly highly educated and…

With few nones entering the US, religious immigrants are stalling secularization. The world’s 280 million immigrants have greater shares of Christians, Muslims, and Jews than the general population, according to a new Pew Research Center study released Monday. “You see migrants coming to places like the US, Canada, different places through Western Europe, and being…

I joined Christianity Today not as a trite multicultural experiment but to contribute to the wonderful weirdness of building the kingdom. The word weird is weirdly being thrown around by politicians as if it’s an official political critique. Once that label is hurled at someone, they return to middle school ethics and recite the gospel…

While Hindus publicly confront mob violence against their community, Christians are apprehensive about speaking out. Bangladesh’s religious minorities have reported looting, arson, and vandalization following Sheikh Hasina’s abrupt resignation as prime minister last month. Thousands of young people first took to the streets in June to protest a court ruling that reinstated a civil service…

Survivors, advocates, and pastors call for “true repentance” among religious groups that ran schools and homes between 1950 and 1999. Not long after Frances Tagaloa accepted Christ at 16, she started experiencing flashbacks. Over the next few years, Tagaloa began piecing together long-buried memories and came to recognize that she had been sexually abused between…

I’m a missiologist and a migrant who lives in Liverpool. Can Christians who have served overseas stand up for my community? Though born in Malawi, for the past eight years, I have made Liverpool my home. In this UK port city where, for centuries, millions of immigrants have passed through and at times settled, the…

Broken bonds and burned bridges can’t be mended by imaginary networks of relationships. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. I don’t know how to say, ‘I’m lonely,’ without sounding like I’m saying, ‘I’m a loser,’” a middle-aged man said to me not long ago. “And I don’t know how to say…

A number of high-profile Christians have converted to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. What is driving them away? In recent decades, there has been a significant and sustained trend of Protestants converting to Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The most notable figure recently is J. D. Vance, the vice-presidential running mate of former president Donald…