Category: Christian news

As a new history of high-profile converts illustrates, those who find (or change) faith can’t opt out of being seen. When I was a child, our church had a children’s choir for a special event one year. I don’t like being up front and having everyone look at me, so I got permission to sit it out, even though all my siblings were participating. When the special day came, every child in the church got up and went to the stage. They all turned around. And looked straight at me. I... Read More

In preventing care for unaccompanied minors, Florida’s governor is interfering with US law and religious freedoms. In December, Florida governor Ron DeSantis issued an “emergency rule” blocking the issuance and renewal of state licenses for organizations that serve unaccompanied migrant children, including many faith-based organizations. Recently, Floridian evangelical pastors joined other religious leaders and laypeople in urging the governor to reconsider this decision,... Read More

The pastor was “not a kingmaker” but called Christians to see social issues as God testing the church. A conservative commentator on Fox News once dismissed Robert Shine Sr. and the impact of the group of Black Christian clergy he led in Philadelphia with a wave of his hand. “They’re not kingmakers,” he said. “They probably lose more than they win.” But that wasn’t how Shine measured the ministers’ witness. That wasn’t how he understood the... Read More

Arizona school aims to continue expanding campus and increasing in-person enrollments. Three years and five months after transitioning to nonprofit status, Grand Canyon University (GCU) has successfully sold off $1.2 billion of debt. The milestone marks a major step in a very unusual journey for a Christian school. One of the nation’s largest Christian universities, GCU was founded as a nonprofit in 1949 but turned into a for-profit entity in 2004 during a period of financial distress.... Read More

They were looking for the past. They created the present. Modern Israeli leaders are unequivocal about the importance of Jerusalem to the state of Israel. “It has been proved without a doubt that Jerusalem is the main artery of our national consciousness,” former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2017. “The root of Zionism is in Zion.” This wasn’t always the case. In the early years of the Zionist movement, the Jewish diaspora considered... Read More

But the former Liberty president is a cautionary tale for cultural Christianity. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Over the past week, countless friends texted me a Vanity Fair profile of former Liberty University chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr., featuring an extended interview with the man who went from being a kingmaker in the 2016 presidential election to resigning after a series of scandals. What most people highlighted was not the salacious... Read More

Arizona school aims to continue expanding campus and increasing in-person enrollments. Three years and five months after transitioning to nonprofit status, Grand Canyon University (GCU) has successfully sold off $1.2 billion of debt. The milestone marks a major step in a very unusual journey for a Christian school. One of the nation’s largest Christian universities, GCU was founded as a nonprofit in 1949 but turned into a for-profit entity in 2004 during a period of financial distress.... Read More

Online myths and misinformation are becoming more of a distraction from their work. When Alia Dewees conducts seminars about the scourge of sex trafficking and its prevention, there’s one group of people more likely than others to quiz her about the furniture and décor company Wayfair selling missing children or kids being smuggled through tunnels under New York City: Christians. These stories are among the conspiracies that were popularized by the QAnon movement and have... Read More

How the popular personality typing system finds its place in Christianity. Is the Enneagram compatible with Christianity? Ian Cron, author of The Road Back to You and The Story of You says yes. On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Cron and Moore talk about the Christian roots of the personality typing system known as the Enneagram. They discuss how helpful the Enneagram can be as a tool for spiritual formation. And they talk about the power of digging into our personal... Read More

Percy Shelley’s 19th-century attacks on marriage, monogamy, and Christianity foreshadowed progressive attitudes today. Percy Bysshe Shelley, a leading figure in the 19th-century English Romantic movement, once described poets like himself as “the unacknowledged legislators of the world.” And indeed, despite living a comparatively short life (he died before age 30), his influence has endured to the present day, most notably in his emphasis on sex as the central element of... Read More