Leaders of Russian-speaking followers of Yeshua discuss whether making aliyah is a commandment, a blessing, or a choice. Jews should leave Russia if they can. The stark warning was issued by Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow, as 2022 came to a close. After 30 years in office, he left two weeks after…
How the acclaimed Bible teacher found a new church home. In March 2021, I made public my departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, the denomination I’d loved all my life and served since I was 12. For the first time in my life, I didn’t have a home church. Didn’t have a clue where to…
Bauxite mining would threaten birds, plants, and clean water. A Christian conservation group is fighting the Ghana government in court over plans to mine bauxite in the Atewa Range Forest Reserve. The protected highland forest north of the capital, Accra, is home to more than 700 species of butterflies, 239 different birds, and 1,134 plants…
Who knew two nonverbal rocks had so much to say? I don’t remember the last time I said, “I love you” to my parents. In fact, I don’t think they’ve said that to me much either in the 30-something years of my existence. For a Chinese Singaporean family, this is hardly out of the ordinary….
She says her new book is “not just for me, but it’s also for the victims.” One of Bill Gothard’s best-known followers recently became one of his most vocal critics. Jinger Duggar Vuolo is the sixth kid in the Duggar family, made famous on TLC shows like 19 Kids and Counting. (Her name is pronounced…
To understand the island nation’s crisis and what evangelicals must do now, start with what we didn’t do. Right now, the Western Hemisphere’s second-oldest republic is collapsing. Militant gangs in Haiti control most of the capital, Port-au-Prince, and significant territory in other cities. They extract bribes at gunpoint for every case of diapers, bag of…
Christian students aren’t afraid to ask questions and continue to seek the “still, small voice” of the Spirit. Today’s college students know their generation can be skeptical—cynical, even—when it comes to big Christian movements. Young believers recognize that claims of God at work can be faked or manipulated, so they would rather ask questions and…
The Asbury awakening exposes the tensions in modern evangelicalism—and within our own hearts. The reactions to the spiritual awakening that began at Asbury are almost as fascinating as the event itself. By and large, the response has been one of awe and hope—as countless pastors and lay Christians, including myself, have flocked to Wilmore to…
A revival historian looks at four possible lessons from Asbury. The best-known evangelical interpreter of revivals, Jonathan Edwards, taught that no one can judge a revival secondhand. Edwards lived prior to telecommunication, but I think he would have said that the spiritual reality of a revival is not available remotely, however technologically sophisticated the transmission…
While tens of thousands flocked to campus, school officials met in a storage closet to make decisions that would “honor what is happening.” The shofars didn’t start until Saturday. With them came the would-be prophets seeking to take center stage at the Asbury University chapel where students had been praying and praising God since Wednesday…
