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The Moral Dangers of Political Victory
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1678+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. CT noted that Ronald Reagan, sworn in on January 20 to a second term as president, has "won more popular votes than any other President. " Religious issues appeared to play directly into…...
As Russia Strikes Ukrainian Churches, Worship Goes On
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (1097+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. The House of the Gospel Church in Zaporizhzhia. During Moscow's invasion in 2014, Oleksandr Pavenko, pastor of Transfiguration Church in Slovyansk, Ukraine, lost two of his sons'both of them also pastors. Kremlin-backed…...
Migrants Fill the Gap Caring for Germany's Aging Population
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1183+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. At the Immanuel Senior Care Center in Elstal, about 18 miles outside Berlin in the German state of Brandenburg, 26-year-old Sharoon Masih moves between the kitchen and the common room carrying trays…...
Just War Debates Reveal Our Moral Poverty
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (643+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. The original language of just war theory made clear its concern not only that war has rules, limits, and restraints, but that both the war and the warriors'themselves'be just. From Augustine,…...
Navigating 1984
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (1439+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. The year 1984 was "the springtime of Christian missions," Fuller Seminary professor C. Peter Wagner told CT. He encouraged readers to look at church growth around the world." The last couple of decades…...
Building a Platform for God'or Using God to Build Your Platform?
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (1211+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. I attended a megachurch in Southern California for about five years. It touted itself as being gospel centered, intergenerational, and multiethnic. The pastor seemed larger than life and had a gift…...
How God Helps Me Eat on $33 Per Week
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (662+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. I interviewed nearly 350 people on the trip and visited 25 countries in the first seven months, so interviews focused on singleness and rarely went longer than an hour or at most two....
Gen Z Isn't Asking Why Bad Things Happen to Good People
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (904+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. But as I've begun my career as a Gen Z Bible professor to Gen Z students, I've realized my undergraduates aren't asking those questions. Time and again I instead hear some…...
Franklin Graham to Hold Evangelical Gathering in Authoritarian Belarus
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (1140+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. For three nights starting Friday, the Chizhovka Arena in Minsk will hold the largest gathering of evangelicals ever in Belarus's history, according to organizers. Orangizers expect around 9, 000 people to enter the…...
Kenyan Christians Battle Domestic Violence Epidemic
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (1299+ words) DISCOVER A NEW WAY TO READ, REFLECT, AND CONNECT. Activists and students gather during a vigil to commemorate young women killed in incidents of gender-based violence at the University of Nairobi on February 14, 2024. In November 2023, on a Sunday morning in…...