Christian News

• ‘Offering Everything They Have’: How Small Churches Are Saving Lives in Brazil’s Floods 10 May 2024
  In the country's most secular state, tiny congregations have made a big impact by their disaster response. For weeks, Tárik Rodriguez had been working on bringing a guest preacher and worship leader from across the country to help his church celebrate its third anniversary. In 2021, Rodriguez and a small team launched Viela da Graça […]
• Rage Against the Apple Machine 10 May 2024
  The controversial iPad ad proves that technology can indeed flatten—or crush—what is real. A recent advertisement from Apple for the new iPad Pro has somehow managed to existentially disturb me. Titled “Crush!” it shows an ominous hydraulic press above a platform filled with symbols of humanity, creativity, and joy: a metronome, guitar, classical statue, piano, […]
• Grace College Professor Terminated Following Facebook Campaign 10 May 2024
  Matthew Warner, who had tweeted about gay marriage, is the latest in a string of Christian college faculty who have lost their jobs after being accused of theological misalignment. With glowing performance reviews and above-average student evaluations, by most measures Matthew Warner’s first year as a communications professor at Grace College was a triumph. But […]
• Christians Shouldn’t Run from a ‘Negative World.’ But They Can Depend on It Less. 10 May 2024
  Aaron Renn outlines individual, institutional, and missional strategies for adapting to a hostile culture. Rarely does an essay cause such a stir as Aaron Renn’s “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism.” Published in First Things in 2022, Renn’s framework for describing Christianity’s fall into cultural disfavor since the 1960s elicited a wide range of responses, from […]
• ‘I Knew I Would Pay a Price for My Faith’: China Releases Missionary After Seven Years 10 May 2024
  John Sanqiang Cao shares how hand-copied Bible verses, prayers, and a mother’s love buoyed him during his imprisonment. When pastor John Sanqiang Cao, 64, crossed the border back into China from Myanmar’s Wa State on March 5, 2017, Chinese officials were waiting to arrest him. For years, he had traveled across the porous border from […]
• Reality Is Now a Diss Track 10 May 2024
  Drake and Kendrick Lamar’s rivalry reveals our craving for controversy—and what’s lost when community is based on shared hatred, not love. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Not since Tupac died have we seen the country quite as fixated on a feud between rappers. Over the past several weeks, artists Drake […]
• Died: Gospel for Asia Founder Athanasius Yohannan 9 May 2024
  The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement. Athanasius Yohannan, who built one of the world’s largest mission organizations on the idea that Western Christians should support “native missionaries” but got in trouble for financial irregularities and dishonest fundraising, died on May 8. He was 74 […]
• Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Train 9 May 2024
  I’m learning that motherhood is less about technique and more about wisdom and formation. Almost six months ago, I had my first baby. Ever since, I’ve been thinking about sleep: how long; how deep; whether it’s happening in a car, on a walk, in a lap. And I’ve been thinking about how to achieve that […]
• Spanish Evangelical Party Makes a Bid for European Union Parliament Seat 9 May 2024
  Long-shot campaign needs 15,000 signatures for the chance to get on the ballot. Eye-catching election placards are popping up across the European Union. They appear overnight in public squares and in front of train stations, along the Autobahn and the Champs-Élysées and many lesser-known rues, strassen, and calles. With bright colors and bold slogans, each […]
• Bringing the City of God to the Cities of Earth 9 May 2024
  Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith. The design of our communities shapes how we interact with one another, love one another, and grow with one another. But who shapes those communities? In a broad sense, we all do. Our choices of where and […]