Tutsi widows and orphans felt betrayed by the church during the genocide. Survivor Denise Uwimana made it her mission to help them heal. It has been 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists murdered at least 800,000 Tutsis over the course of 100 days. Women, men, infants, and children were assaulted with grenades …
Taraji P. Henson says her faith influenced her decision to play Ann Atwater, the Christian woman who got the head of the Ku Klux Klan to consider integrating Durham schools. Oh absolutely,” Taraji P. Henson told Christianity Today when we asked if her faith in God informs her choice of roles as an actress and …
The Portland-based animation studio is seeing unprecedented success in an age of biblical illiteracy. My screen fills with a glow of color, rich golds and reds blending and shifting. Particles phase into the outline of a DNA double helix, mimicking the pinpoint lights of the globe. A soothing voice speaks, and a story leaps into …
How the church can help Americans better listen to each other on a radioactive topic. At the beginning of this year, Christianity Today received a grant funding a position for an immigrant communities editor. What beat is that, you say? It’s a position that examines “the intersection of immigration, the church, and Christian communities.” As …
A writer goes in search of the young Coptic Christian men executed on film by ISIS. Martin Mosebach’s new book, The 21, tells the story of 21 Coptic Christians martyred by Muslim extremists on a Libyan beach in 2015. I finished reading it a day before the horrific terrorist attack by a white nationalist on …
In the CW’s take on the teenage witch, Satan is front and center. It has been two decades since the Harry Potter series emerged as a cultural phenomenon. When the story of the boy wizard who attends the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry began to dominate children’s literature, evangelicals wondered if it was okay …
A movement in Southeast Asia shows how real-time reporting is building Great Commission connections. Dwight Martin can tell you the exact number of churches in Thailand. At the start of 2019, his site reported 5,805. By the next week, the number would be different. While missionaries overseas, and even Western churches, often rely on broad …
Chosen by Liz Carter, author of ‘Catching Contentment: How to Be Holy Satisfied.’ God on Mute: Engaging the Silence of Unanswered Prayer, by Pete Greig When I read God on Mute, I breathed a huge sigh of relief. Here, at last, was permission to cry out that I wasn’t healed, that it was all too …
Why Christians shouldn’t either. Passover has a special allure for Christians. It is on the night of Passover, as all Israel is offering the pascal Lamb and eating matza (unleavened bread) and bitter herbs on the slopes of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem that Jesus of Nazareth meets with his 12 disciples for the Last …
Why the church should resist technologies that aim to liberate us from ordinary, embodied life. Amid the pop-culture detritus of my childhood, one unforgettable fragment is the TV series The Six Million Dollar Man. For the children of the 1970s, Steve Austin (played by Lee Majors) was our first cyborg, fitted with a “bionic” eye …