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…

My return to the United States brought grief and loneliness as I realized I was different from my peers. On an early morning flight out of the country, I claimed the window seat. Alongside the usual anticipation that accompanies travel, I felt joy and fear and sadness. I don’t remember if I cried. What I…

The raised index finger of levitating surfer Gabriel Medina is the latest sign that sports success has made Brazilian evangelicals less marginalized and more confident. There’s a hidden Christian message behind what may be the most celebrated image of the 2024 Olympics. On July 29, in round three of the shortboard surfing competition, Brazil’s Gabriel…

Falsehoods are easy to tell in politics, and they can even creep into the church. But nothing takes us farther from the Truth himself. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. When Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate this week, some people took to…

The organizers deny their tableau referenced Da Vinci’s Last Supper. But the imagery speaks volumes about the spiritual needs of our confused society. The controversy over the Paris Olympics’ alleged mockery of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper during the opening ceremony takes us all the way back to ancient Greece. Not to Olympia, the…

Translation and digitization projects are seeking to revitalize the Indigenous language. Kenny Wallace doesn’t have a lot of people to talk to in Choctaw. But he does have a Bible app with a new translation of Scripture in the Indigenous language that his ancestors spoke. And it has an audio sync feature that allows him…

Christians in America enjoy the right and duty to educate our children as conscience dictates, thanks to a balanced legal tradition. When the COVID-19 pandemic pushed K–12 schooling online and gave public school parents a new window into how and what their children were learning, a nationwide debate erupted. Public curricula on race, class, and…

Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was stabbed a month before the 2018 election. Polarization and Christian nationalism has only grown since then. On September 6, 2018, the eve of Brazil’s Independence Day, a crowd of people was carrying Jair Bolsonaro through the streets of Juiz de Fora when a man approached and stabbed the then-presidential candidate…