With the whole world watching, spiritual advisers face new challenges. President Harry Truman was furious. Billy Graham had revealed the content of their private conversation to the media, going so far as to perform a “reenactment” of their prayer time on the White House lawn at the media’s request. It was the first time Truman …
How her approach to translation recovers the emotion and artistry of God’s Word. God spoke. And not just the world, but the Bible too came into existence. Then again, Isaiah, Luke, and Paul also spoke, using human voices and tools to do the work we’ve come to expect words to do. It’s been an interesting …
Mainline churches with evangelical leanings outpace their liberal counterparts, study says. Amid the decades-long decline in mainline Protestantism in North America, researchers in Canada recently found an “elusive sample” of congregations whose growth has bucked the trend. The key characteristic these exceptional Anglican, Presbyterian, Lutheran, and United churches had in common? Evangelical theology. With fewer …
While the high-spirited superhero sequel brings back the laughs, it occasionally loses sight of its own cosmic ideas. This article contains potential spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Near the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, hero Peter Quill and the film’s main villain are ready for their big fight. Before …
A balanced, biblical take on the devices we can’t seem to live without. I remember the day I got my first smartphone. Upgrading from a “dumb phone,” I was dazzled. Crisp and clear pictures. Email and calendar in one place. Ready access to Twitter, Facebook, and any search engine I wanted. In the words of …
‘Welcome to the club.’ When asked why it was important to him to have a cabinet that was 50 percent female, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau coolly responded, “Because it’s 2015.” In other words, “It should just be obvious to any decent, thinking person.” In 2017, this sort of rhetorical flourish is even more common. …
Why Christians should support the type of Muslims who support Ahok. When I learned that the Christian governor of Jakarta had been convicted and imprisoned for blasphemy, I was stunned. So were my dinner companions: four senior Indonesian political leaders—three Muslims, one Christian. We were celebrating the end of a grueling six-week tour, traveling the …
The question is: Which one? It’s no coincidence that The Handmaid’s Tale, the Hulu original series based on the Margaret Atwood book of the same name, is being released now, more than 30 years after the book’s publication. Capitalizing upon a the parallels between its fictional American dystopia and the distress that many people feel …
Early 20th-century evangelical history was more than two camps lobbing grenades at each other. Geoffrey Treloar’s The Disruption of Evangelicalism: The Age of Torrey, Mott, McPherson and Hammond feels like the culmination of a very long project. Back in 2003, historian Mark Noll inaugurated InterVarsity Press’s five-volume series on the history of evangelicalism with The …
I equated material possessions with happiness, until a high-school mission trip changed my thinking. Growing up, I was something of a nomad. I spent the first years of my life in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. Then, at age six, I moved to Hong Kong, where I would remain until the third grade before …