2+ hour, 31+ min ago  (841+ words) How reading Christianity Today inspires a ministry leader in Indonesia to continue growing. Throughout Mario Kasih's life and ministry, Christianity Today has been a source of inspiration to grow closer to God and to other members and ministers of the…...

18+ hour, 42+ min ago  (619+ words) Matt Damon as Odysseus. Centuries before the New Testament authors wrote their gospels, Homer laid down his own evangelium: Tolkien was convinced that mankind's myths, for all their failings, still steer toward a "true harbour." To succeed, Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (814+ words) Persistently rotten fruit should tell us when a tree is diseased. Cynicism can explain motive, but it cannot explain effectiveness'why the cynical arguments work. Cynicism has to have a credulity to exploit. To wave away behavior they know to be…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (811+ words) The day I got engaged to Lex was the same day my favorite worship artist released an EP of love songs. I listened to them as I drove to our engagement spot, reflecting on the divine surprise that was our…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (640+ words) In'the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln'said'America was "conceived in liberty." Today we might call that our country's unique selling proposition. While other nations emphasized biological unity, America in the 20th century finally became a liberty theme park where people of all skin…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (523+ words) This piece was adapted from CT's books newsletter. Subscribe'here. Lisa Victoria Fields (Author) Fields guides readers through a process of self-reflection, grief, and healing with compassion and theological precision. She invites readers to consider how hero worship hurts everyone, writing,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1071+ words) A new book from Luke Burgis is unavoidably incomplete, but it bears witness with the calm confidence of Christian faith. After romance novels, there may be no genre of writing more pilloried yet beloved than self-help. Society turned sour and…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (336+ words) Fractures of our society are multisensory experiences. We can see them in our cities and neighborhoods. We can feel them when banter turns to controversial topics. These moments of fracture can make us feel as if we're blind in a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (424+ words) An editorial note from our July/August issue. Living in California, I don't think about earthquakes as much as people might imagine. Yes, the San Andreas Fault is 746 miles long and could be the site of the next "big one,…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1790+ words) In the past seven years, Chinese house church leaders Owen Jiao and Ella Jiang have sought to provide their children with a Christian education, a difficult journey that caused them to run afoul of the Chinese government, ostracized them from…...