What a brand new, half-a-billion addition to Washington, DC, means for how we experience Scripture. Next month, the half-a-billion-dollar, genre-busting, and technologically groundbreaking Museum of the Bible will open its doors in Washington, DC. Here’s what visitors can expect, courtesy of our November cover story: Looking up, a visitor might see a sprawling digital canopy …
It’s easy to ignore the painful, messy, universal experience of birth that Jesus was referring to. Sometimes I tell people I’m an E. K., an evangelist’s kid. I heard my father use the words born again all the time. By the time I was an adult, the term had lost any meaning beyond the idea …
Our confidence in the gospel spurs us to serve our communities, not to shrink back when they decide they no longer need us. As the Catholic writer Joseph Bottum has observed, we live in an anxious age. In an increasingly diverse and rapidly changing culture, some people are anxious about shifting cultural norms, civil rights, …
Our call to pursue nuance, a love-infused, subversive force. The awful hangover from last year’s contentious US presidential election seems to have transitioned into something of a chronic migraine. Interparty animosity is higher than it’s been in a quarter century; nearly 9 in 10 of those in both the Republican and Democratic parties have at …
The new museum wants to ignite passion for the Word through high-tech wizardry and scholarly detachment. Can it do it all? Two blocks south of the National Mall in Washington, DC, a stately brick building with a recessed entrance faces Fourth Street. On either side of the entrance, two bronze doors the height of upended …
Denis Villeneuve’s ambitious sequel is a life-affirming spectacle of noir and neon. One of the powers of cinema, and particularly the sci-fi genre, is its ability to hold up a mirror to our present era and ask us to consider its current trajectory. Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterful …
To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, the ‘Reforming Catholic Confession’ calls Protestants to unity. Five hundred years on, some observers are wondering whether the nail Luther used to post his 95 Theses on the Wittenberg door was a harbinger of a final nail in the coffin of Protestantism. In light of the many …
Why a sci-fi idea championed by Elon Musk and others is an opportunity for Christians. In June of last year, entrepreneur Elon Musk intrigued the science and technology community with his controversial remarks about the world being a “simulation.” “The odds that we’re in base reality,” he said during the Code Conference interview, “is one …
Do the recent revelations discredit his theology? I knew that Karl Barth, arguably the greatest Protestant theologian of the 20th century, had a decades-long affair with his personal assistant, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. But I didn’t know some of the details. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details, and the details were deeply …
Lausanne and BAM Global respond to Ron Sider. We, as leaders of Lausanne and BAM Global, representing the Wealth Creation Consultation, appreciate Ron Sider’s kind and affirmative words about the Wealth Creation Manifesto. He says that “virtually all that this manifesto says is true and important,” as well as “helpful, and much-needed.” On the other …