How the world’s largest nongovernmental provider of the resource is delivering on its promise. For years, whenever Regina Mukasimpunga sat in church, she found it hard to concentrate on anything other than the chore awaiting her when service let out: fetching water. The never-ending task dominated the life of the rural Rwandan community, forcing residents…
The government plans to close its porous border with Myanmar to boost security, separating ethnic groups that straddle the boundary. Ngamreichan Tuithung runs a Christian boarding school that sits right at the border of India’s Manipur state and Myanmar. Amazing Grace Mission School is based in Wanglee Market, a small Indian town, and serves around…
The rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. As Columbia University and other elite campuses erupt into protests against the United States’ diplomatic and military support of Israel’s war against Hamas, US Sen. John Fetterman denounced the antisemitic speech of some…
Beyoncé’s right. Whether listening to Cowboy Carter or reading theology, diversity is a good thing. I wasn’t planning to listen to Cowboy Carter, the eighth studio album from American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. I’ve always had a love for her music—but country has never been my thing. Plans changed when I started to read what…
After lobbying from fellow Southern Baptists and Christians affected by the war, the House speaker moves a package forward. When deciding whether to protect his place in leadership as House speaker or go against his party to do what he believed was right, Mike Johnson turned to prayer. It had been weeks of hearing intelligence…
C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique. I’d just finished reading one of C. S. Lewis’s lesser-known books, Studies in Words, when I happened upon a recent New York Times report on evangelical support for Donald Trump. The former president’s summer of legal woes is…
Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian. Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation in the world. It’s made up of an astounding 17,000 islands, with 70 percent of the population living in coastal areas. Many view the country as a divers’ haven because it is home…
But let’s not mistake it for calling. Charisma has fallen on hard times in the church. Or at least some of us have become suspicious of it. The cracks have been showing for a while. Nine years ago, long before Oxford University Press crowned rizz (slang for the kind of charisma that inspires romantic attraction)…
Church movements need magnetic leaders. But the best leaders need more than charm. Emad is an exception in many says. He grew up in a massive slum but rose to be the branch manager of a bank in a capital city. Most people in his area are Muslim and animist, but Emad’s devout Christian mother…
A law professor shares lessons on respectful disagreement in the classroom, the church, and the wider culture. Law schools can function as microcosms of society, gathering people from diverse backgrounds to debate highly charged issues of politics, morality, and religion. John Inazu, an evangelical constitutional scholar and professor of law and religion at Washington University…
