The Duggar documentary shows how the fundamentalist movement got parenting and children wrong. Families can be pernicious places for children. Theologian Adrian Thatcher notes this in his book Theology and Families, which I read over a decade ago. Thatcher’s words were a steady refrain in my mind as I watched the new Amazon Prime docuseries…
Top issues at the annual meeting in New Orleans include Saddleback, female pastors, abuse reform, and entity finances. Long before the 10,000-plus messengers show up in a massive conference hall each June, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has already begun debating the issues at stake at its annual meeting. Southern Baptists have come to expect…
Presbyterians expect less fight and more fatigue as they gather following the Covenant shooting and the deaths of Harry Reeder and Tim Keller. In his first sermon since the death of his daughter and five others at The Covenant School in Nashville, Chad Scruggs, senior pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, referenced Isaiah 40 to describe…
With CBN, “The 700 Club,” Regent, the Christian Coalition, and a run for president, he changed evangelicals’ place in public life. Across six decades in front of the camera, Pat Robertson brought his Pentecostal sensibilities and conservative politics into millions of living rooms as the pioneer of Christian television and the leader of the Christian…
“She knew how to tell a story with power.” Few evangelicals know Elizabeth Sherrill’s name. But because of her, they know David Wilkerson, Brother Andrew, Corrie ten Boom, and dozens of other modern men and women who overcame by faith. Working closely with her husband John, she reported, wrote, and edited some of the most…
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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…
