Antisemitic Violence and Its Shameful Defense

Christians must care for both Israeli and Palestinian victims of war—and that means actively rejecting hatred of the Jewish people. One day after Hamas’s Simchat Torah massacres in Israel, crowds gathered at a rally in Times Square promoted by the Democratic Socialists of America. “Our resistance stormed illegal settlements,” shouted one speaker, “and paraglided across colonial borders.” The crowd responded with rousing cheers. It was an unapologetic... Read More

As Asian American Christians Decline, Most ‘Nones’ Still Feel Close to Religion

New Pew survey of 7,000 adults explores the beliefs and practices of Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims and their affinity to Confucianism and Daoism. Christians comprise the largest faith group (34%) among Asian Americans. But since 2012, Christianity has declined by 8 percentage points. Meanwhile, the share of religiously unaffiliated people has increased from 26 to 32 percent over the same period. This is according to a new Pew Research Center survey of religion among Asian... Read More

Remembering ‘Grandma’ Lin Calvert, Missionary Doctor Who Brought Life to Remote Papua New Guinea

In her 69 years at Kapuna Hospital, Calvert delivered 10,000 babies, saved countless lives, trained healthcare workers, and loved the people. I paused to soak in the scene before me. I had come to the remote Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea to write a book about the Calvert family, who, together with the local medical team, transformed medical care in the region. Now, bathed in sunlight streaming through a window in her home, the elderly Lin Calvert sat bent over her Bible, grasping a... Read More

‘A Blueprint for Discipleship in an Urban Context’ with Dhati Lewis

Making disciples in our own neighborhoods. From the very beginning, Dhati Lewis had a plan. He was going to be in the NFL, and that was it. Yet, when he was so close to achieving it, God gave him a different dream. Instead, he suddenly found his calling into ministry, one that inspired his mission of being God’s hands and feet in urban contexts, starting with his own neighborhood. Guest Bio: Dr. Dhati Lewis serves as the Vision and Multiplication Pastor of Blueprint Church as well as... Read More

Christians Have a Duty to Hate the Evil of Hamas

The example of Jesus, the teachings of the just war tradition, and Hamas’s own words make this clear. By now you will have heard of slaughtered Israeli babies, seen the graphic video of a kidnapped Jewish teenager being pulled by her hair with what appears to be blood between her legs, read of the 85-year-old grandmother taken to the Gaza strip without her medicines to die alone and in great pain. By now you will know that Hamas terrorists have shot children, raped women, snatched... Read More

Chapter 5: A Tectonic Shift in Technology

The pandemic greatly accelerated the adoption of and reliance on technology among churches. The expansion of technology during the COVID-19 pandemic drastically shifted the landscape of church ministry. Though some changes were temporary, many will remain. As one of the Arbor researchers put it, “The toothpaste can’t be put back in the tube.” Our research indicates that more than two-thirds of respondents (67.5%) believe their church was reshaped due to its embrace of... Read More

Armenia Struggles to Aid 100,000 Artsakh Refugees After War

Evangelical, Orthodox, and secular aid workers care for traumatized Nagorno-Karabakh kin they say were ethnically cleansed from their homeland. Azerbaijani Christians reply. Karolin is one of 30,000 Armenian children without a home—again. Fleeing the mountainous enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in the face of Azerbaijan’s assault last month, the 12-year-old girl had an unexpected encounter. After crossing the Lachin corridor westward to Goris in Armenia proper, she found her beloved... Read More

This Is the Violent World in Which Christ Commands Peace

The horror of terrorism reminds us anew of how impossible it feels to love our enemies. Violence, we are told, followed so closely the origin of human evil as to be almost indistinguishable. For soon after Adam’s sin, violence appears—first in the skin taken from animals (Gen. 3:21), then in the murder of a brother (4:8), and finally over the whole of the earth (6:11). Violence follows humanity through the Flood and into the world beyond it, taking root in generational fights... Read More

‘No One Will Save You’ Has Evangelical Aliens

The new sci-fi horror flick by former missionary kid Brian Duffield has an unusual spiritual spin. In his piece for CT, Aaron Earls explores what C. S. Lewis thought about evangelizing aliens—provided we discover they do indeed exist. But what if aliens came to proselytize us? Directed by Brian Duffield and now streaming on Hulu, No One Will Save You is a mostly silent sci-fi horror film featuring only a single discernible line of dialogue. The film has already earned high praise... Read More

Should Christians Share a Conference Stage with Theological Opponents?

Jackie Hill Perry, Sean McDowell, and others explain why they appear alongside speakers with different stances and when they’d refuse to join a lineup. These days, Christian speakers have to carefully consider not just what they say—but those they say it alongside. From packed-stadium conferences and denominational events to church retreats and ministry webinars, evangelical audiences pay attention to the names and faces getting platformed. These lineups can serve as... Read More