The ‘wife of noble character’ is rarely applied to whom it was meant to describe. In recent years, many faithful Christian women have internalized the words of Proverbs 31, but I can’t help wondering with 17th-century Bible commentary author Matthew Henry, “This passage is to be applied to individuals, but may it not also be …
As young Brazilian missionaries, we learned to depend on God and the people we journeyed to reach. Editor’s Note: Last year, John Allen Chau’s fatal mission to India’s North Sentinel Island, home to the world’s most isolated tribe, spurred new conversations about Christians making first contact with indigenous people. A majority of uncontacted and remote …
The late founder of L’Arche showed the church how disability, vulnerability, and weakness bring us closer to one another and closer to Jesus. Jean Vanier, who died Tuesday morning at age 90, lived much of his life beside death. “Over the last forty-two years we’ve had many deaths, and we’ve spent a lot of time …
“Greg the Apologist” remembers his former student and interlocutor. If Twitter were an Olympic sport, Rachel Held Evans would’ve been a gold medalist. Maybe in the Hall of Fame, if there were one. She bested me in the exchange of short bursts more than once, most recently just a few months ago. Those of us …
Neuroscientist William Struthers encourages wisdom as a flurry of drugs move from taboo to enrichment. No one would suggest we study the Bible while on drugs. But each week, many Christians go to church, go to small group, or have quiet time with the Bible in one hand and a stimulant in the other. We …
Why God sends his people into battle armed with the tools of everyday life. In the first Battle of Armageddon, the enemy commander was killed with camping equipment. Speculation about the next round has been the stuff of bestselling books and blockbuster movies, replete with speculation about a world government, flying locust-scorpion warships, bar codes, …
I want my children to know how to work hard. I also want them to know that hard work doesn’t define them. The stories we hear when we’re young stay with us. They define us, tell us who we are. For good, and sometimes for ill, they inform the ways we live our lives. Sometimes …
The ministry’s president and CEO bids farewell. On May 1, Harold Smith will retire as president and CEO of Christianity Today and assume the honorary title of president emeritus. In drawing his administration to a close, Smith addressed Christianity Today’s board of directors in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 23 on both the need to …
When we don’t confront sin, in others and in ourselves, we commit spiritual malpractice. Once, when my family lived in New York City, I was in a hurry to get from one meeting to the next. The first step was descending from the 28th floor of the building where my first meeting took place. I …
New Zealand revealed the tragic logical end of evils like Christian Nationalism. The March massacre of 50 Muslims during worship in New Zealand was first and foremost a human tragedy, one felt deeply around the world. Unfortunately the massacre also signaled a political tragedy, displaying the logical end to a type of engagement increasingly defining …