What our wedding vows suggest about how God relates to us. Something surprising happens in a wedding ceremony. The bride and groom, after great preparation and full of love for each other, step forward to be united in marriage. And at the climax of that ceremony, they put conditions on their love for each other. …
In “Coloring Book,” Chance the Rapper is honest about his flaws, his faith, and the reality of growing up on Chicago’s South Side. Chance the Rapper and his Chicago White Sox cap are inseparable. It’s a staple in his concert wardrobe. He wears it on TV. Chance even created his own custom designs as a …
Islam and Christianity share Second Coming hopes. Can this be a bridge? Jesus did not show up to defend ISIS—and the first to celebrate was a Muslim. “The [ISIS] myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished,” Ahmed Osman, a Free Syrian Army officer, told Reuters in October after coalition forces drove more than …
God met me in the clarity of his Word—then came the hard part. T he “perspicuity” (clarity) of the Bible was real to me before I even knew what to call it. It was an experience long before it became a tenet of my faith. I started to read the New Testament just as I …
Education expert Andrea Ramirez on what the appointment means for the public school system and the church. Betsy DeVos is set to run the United States Department of Education after the Senate confirmed her appointment earlier this week. Many criticized DeVos’s nomination because she has little experience in public education. She attended a private school, …
HBO’s unsettling Vatican satire asks what happens when spiritual leaders shirk their own faith. I used to believe pastors were infallible. Then I became one. Over the last decade, others have changed their minds about ministers, too. In fact, the general public’s trust in clergy currently sits at an all-time low. One could explain these …
Regardless of court fight’s final outcome, fewer persecuted Christians will make it to America under president’s plan. More than 500 conservative evangelical pastors and leaders representing all 50 states are urging President Donald Trump to reverse his temporary ban on refugee resettlement and his “dramatic reduction” of the total America will accept this fiscal year. …
We shape society when we remember who we are first and foremost. We shape society when we remember who we are first and foremost. Historians will conduct postmortems on American Christianity’s recent relationship with politics and culture for years to come. Some Christians have felt pressured by the political right to trust the state to …
A better way to read the bizarre story of Elisha and the bears. Three times last year I asked a Christian audience this question: Which story in Scripture bothers you most? There are numerous candidates—the flood, the destruction of Sodom, the Passover, the conquest of Canaan—most involving large numbers of people being killed. But each …
Federal protections will only go so far in the complicated tussle between faith and LGBT rights. Evangelicals are anticipating President Donald Trump’s next move to protect religious liberty, after he nominated a supportive judge to the Supreme Court and defended the cause at the National Prayer Breakfast last week. Reports circulated over a draft of …