I am thankful to live in a country that acknowledges people have rights to “life,…
Within the last decade, it’s been reported that 70 percent of Americans identify as Christians.…
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Bill Maher is a talk show host who is famous for hating organized religion. Ben…
The Satanic Temple continues to mine the worst tricks from church subculture in what is…
Using the most recent U.S. Religion Census data, The Washington Post has created these maps…
According to a new Gallup Poll, more than 1 in 4 Americans believe that the…
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For the unaware, Pastafarianism is a parody religion, invented to poke fun at other religions.…
American Atheists—which may have the most self-descriptive name of any organization out there—has launched a…
Interesting numbers coming out of a CNN poll, saying thirty-eight percent of Americans believe abortion…
As you probably know, Pat Robertson says some wild stuff over on his show—so much…
Well, this ought to stir some debate. A study out of the University of Rochester…
This August, various social justice organizations that you know and love—or don’t know but would…
A new study of 228 college students found that while just about everyone prefers video…
The Atlantic Weekly has an interesting story about the curious plight of Burma, a country…
Advertising is famously tricky business. Plenty of magazines have run ads that don’t necessarily represent…
Christians tend to get nervous when talk of interfaith dialogue comes up. But can such dialogue actually be a part of of fulfilling Christ’s command to be peacemakers?
Politics are complicated, controversial, divisive—we could go on. But Kurt Willems says Jesus’ approach was far more simpler, and far more surprising.
Harvard Professor of Divinity Karen King has unearthed a fourth-century scrap of parchment that is…
“How can you say you love people if you are constantly trying to convert them?” This objection crops up a lot when it comes to interfaith dialogue—and often, it’s Christians who pose the question. So, what do we do with it? Is it possible to authentically love a person and still desire to see them come to Christ, or does a commitment to evangelism automatically lead us to view other people as nothing more than projects?
A study from Azim Shariff at the University of Oregon and Mijke Rhemtulla at the…
A mission trip leader realizes his trips are getting them nowhere—and decides to start loving the world from home.
The sun did not sympathize with the winter season. What should have been alive was…
A camp just north of Seattle is famous for being what might be the world’s…
Sometimes we think we’ve figured out God’s plan for the messy work of our lives. Sometimes we know where the story’s headed. But then we hit a bend in the road we didn’t expect and we realize: We have no idea where God is in this mess. Our columnist Kristin Tennant invites us to grapple with the difficulty of redemption, healing, and wholeness—and what to do when we don’t know what God is doing.
The gritty reality of poverty can’t help but shake us up and ask, “Did Jesus really mean what He said when He told us, ‘Blessed are the poor?'” Adam and Chrissy Jeske explore this question from the vantage point of experience—their experience serving a small village in Nicaragua, where a local man named Rodolfo lost the one thing he had going for him.
This term, I have the honor of teaching college-level speech and ethics at a local…
Fresh out of college, I wanted to change the world…But I was rudely disappointed. Instead, all I got were spreadsheets, trips to our Georgia headquarters, and a new, shiny, $500 Dell laptop. Hardly the adventure I expected…but then I realized the adventure is not the point.
Two broad schools of thought emerge in theological discourse concerning the question, “Can a person lose their salvation?” Our columnist Kurt Willems showcases both sides of the argument and seeks to lay a common ground.
Deconstructing the common post-missions-trip phrase, “We came to serve them, but they really served us.”
Why is there an obsession in popular culture and in certain sects of Christianity with the end of the world? Our columnist Kurt Willems tackles this question and also points us toward an understanding of apocalyptic references in Scripture.
Christian schools in Louisiana are going to start using curriculum that teaches the Loch Ness…
Today, as the church navigates the tricky waters of a transition from Christendom to post-Christendom, the way forward has more to do with humility than combative claims of superiority.
Nikole Lim of Freely in Hope writes about women around the world who have overcome difficult circumstances and still find threads of hope.
Kate Wise writes about her work in the social justice field, and applying her passion for others even in a 9-to-5 job.