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…
Jesus told us not to worry, but worry is our culture’s parenting default. It’s harming our kids. As my daughter dangled 10 feet above the ground, legs wrapped around the thick, smooth trunk of a vine in the middle of the Belizean jungle, I stood below her and considered how far she was from solid…
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…
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…
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…
