In a country known for loving Western praise music—Hillsong’s second-biggest market—a grassroots movement is singing new tunes. Arnel Cadeliña, a pastor and worship leader in Manila, remembers when his parents called their only “born again” relative for help. It was 1983, Cadeliña was 12, and his family was convinced that his teenage sister was possessed…
Communities surrounding Trump’s rally site feel the shock of the tragic shooting. Corey Comperatore loved reading Romans. His pastor at Cabot Methodist Church, Jonathan Fehl, recalled how much Comperatore drew strength from the book. It was the first thing he’d recommend to new believers. But it may be that Comperatore is remembered by another portion…
After 60 years of division, leaders hope that coming together will strengthen the church’s witness. On March 25 of this year, a group of Pakistani Presbyterian church leaders gathered in one of their homes. There, the 20 or so people decided to bring their factions together after years of contentious division. Later, they gathered for…
Poll: Black Protestants are among the only groups who remain confident in the president’s mental capacities. With mounting scrutiny over President Joe Biden’s fitness for the 2024 election, most evangelical Protestants believe that Biden should drop out of the race, though a sizable number of Black Protestants continue to back him. A new poll from…
The Catholic convert brings a fighter persona and outsider’s view to politics. Donald Trump’s first running mate, Mike Pence, appealed to conservative evangelical voters by offering what Trump lacked: political experience, a pro-life record, a steady demeanor, and outspoken Christian faith. Two presidential elections later, Trump’s 2024 pick for vice president, J. D. Vance, appeals…
Political violence looms large in our national history, to our shame. It does not have to define our future. Foreign policy theorists have a term for when two countries unwillingly drift toward war. It’s called a security dilemma, and as Harvard international relations scholar Stephen M. Walt has explained at Foreign Policy magazine, it’s a…
Political violence offers a false sense of meaning. The church must model a different kind of glory. In the hours of confusion and chaos since the assassination attempt at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, in which the former president was injured and several others killed or critically wounded, partisans of all sorts…
Evangelicals respond to the fatal shooting at the former president’s campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Evangelical leaders and politicians offered prayers for former president Donald Trump and thanked God for sparing his life following a shooting at a campaign rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday. Thousands of supporters joined a prayer call hosted by America First…
As it brings in churches from mainline and conservative Presbyterian denominations, the EPC feels the tension in compromise. A Presbyterian denomination that prides itself on freedom in nonessentials has found its cooperative ministry model strained by the latest discussion of human sexuality. Presbyterian historian Donald Fortson has been a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church…
The politician’s public commitment to abstinence has made him an outlier in a sex-obsessed culture. But is the church any friendlier to older single men? Tim Scott entered politics decades ago as a proud 30-year-old virgin. Campaigning at the height of 1990s evangelical “purity culture,” he proclaimed that sex should be reserved for marriage. Years…
