An opera heroine’s conflict with her faith and family has dangerously high stakes. Serpent-handling churches are, for obvious reasons, perpetually fascinating to those outside them. They’ve been the subject of books, documentaries, songs, photography exhibits, and a reality show. But opera? Indeed, Taking Up Serpents, a new hour-long opera commissioned by the Washington National Opera …
Before racial reconciliation can happen, says Jemar Tisby, American believers need to reckon honestly with the sins of the past. At the climax of the 1992 classic A Few Good Men, Colonel Nathan Jessup (Jack Nicholson) famously screams, “You can’t handle the truth!” Responding to questions from Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee (Tom Cruise) about a military …
Deaf communities around the world are still waiting to experience God’s Word in their first language. How much longer will it be? Note: Our guest on this week’s show signed his responses so we are also making a video of this podcast available below. A transcript of our conversation is also included at the end …
Why treating the female body like property misses the gospel and fails the unborn. Modern feminism has spent the last century fighting to give women the freedom to have jurisdiction over their voting rights, their ambitions, and their bodies. Some of the movement has done great good. But some of it has done great harm …
These practices of Anna and Simeon kept them faithful in a time of seeming hopelessness. Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him. (Luke 2:25) There was also a prophet, Anna, the daughter of …
How our relationship to God makes us unique from our robot imitators. My son saw a shark today. In his two short years, this was the first time he beheld the creature. His eyes went wide. Would he fear the thing? His head tilted a few degrees left, betraying a smile. Not knowing what it …
Why have so many modern novelists and poets chased after (and fled from) God? The metaphors we use in given situations show us more about our assumptions than we often realize. In politics, we speak of the “arena,” our “opponents,” or even “battle lines.” Our language betrays a hostile environment filled with warring parties. When …
What to know about the controversy dividing 300 million Christians. Last fall, the Patriarch of Moscow cut ties with the Patriarch of Constantinople. This action severed the world’s largest Orthodox church from its historic home and launched a series of events that recently took a sharp turn. Last week, the Patriarch of Constantinople offered the …
Mr. Rogers’s dangerous side, what we lose when hymnbooks disappear, and quitting the tug-of-war over Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy. Read our most-read book reviews of 2018, ranked in reverse order of which ones our online readers read most. Continue reading… Source: Christianity Today Most Read
The Bible refers to fellow Christians as “brothers and sisters,” but how often do we treat them as family? The little boy was playing in the street, kicking the dust, jumping off walls. My wife happened to walk past him with our five children, which caught the lad’s attention. He watched from a distance for …