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This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Nathaniel Philbrick, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World (Viking, October 2026) Nathaniel Philbrick is one of the most engaging history writers today. In my courses, I some...
Franni Cash Believes the Best is Yet to Come
Franni Cash is no newcomer to the Christian music industry, and it shows. Though she’s only been recording and performing as a solo artist since 2023, her onstage charisma and ease in front of stadium crowds comes from years spent singing with the band We The Kingdom, whose other...
When Annie Dillard Met James Kilgo
When James Kilgo published Deep Enough for Ivorybills in 1988, reviewers compared it to Annie Dillard’s 1974 nature memoir Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard herself saw the kinship. In the afterword to a book she edited, Modern American Memoirs, she recommended Kilgo’s book. Ivory...
Holy Ambition Begins at Home
I have an ambition: I want to write good stories that change the world. Following in the footsteps of Lewis and Tolkien, I want to craft tales that act as signposts to the triune God. I want to fight against the darkness with fables of light. But I have four children under 5. Oft...
Better Together: Men and Women in the Church
When men and women work together toward a shared mission and vision in Christ's church, we get a fuller representation of what it means to bear the image of God. But what does that look like? And is it possible in a faithfully complementarian context? In this panel recorded at TG...
Attacks strain churches in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains
Sudan (MNN) — Christian and Muslim leaders from Sudan’s Nuba Mountains are calling for an end to fighting following a three-day consultation in Yida, South Sudan. Representatives from the new Sudanese Council of Churches and the Islamic Council of the Nuba Mountains met earlier t...
Iranian flights disappear as U.S. sanctions deadline hits
Iran (MNN) – Iran is running out of ways to connect with the outside world. A key U.S. sanctions deadline took effect Wednesday, shutting down all but a handful of Iranian flights to Türkiye, the United Arab Emirates, and China. The deadline ended a short wind-down period for for...
He Brought Black and White South Africans Together. Today He’s Still Praying.
On a misty November morning, I could hear piet-my-vrou (red chested cuckoos) calling as I walked through the hydrangea garden and into the neat white house just outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, home of evangelist Michael Cassidy, who turns 90 years old today. Cassidy, w...
Why Christians Should Delete Social Media
Social media is bad for you. It’s bad for the world, for politics, for young people. In fact, it’s bad for everybody, at every level, and no platform is exempt: not Facebook, not X, not Instagram or TikTok or Bluesky. Nor is there some edifying version of social media in the offi...
French Christians Brace for Future of 'Violent' Heat
At 18 months old, Arthur Bailly was too young to understand why his family’s small 10th-floor apartment in the north central French city of Orléans baked in late June. During France’s hottest summer on record, the building’s cement construction absorbed accumulating heat. The lac...
When I’m Too Weak to Be Productive
Can a disabled mother model the Proverbs 31 woman? Pastor John describes the gift of a heart that hopes in God’s steadfast love.Listen Now
Tim Keller’s Final Exhortation: Notice the Stories that Shape You
Tim Keller spent some of his last days on earth thinking through the stories our culture tells us. In his hospital room during intensive cancer treatments, he used the whiteboard intended to list medications and treatment plans to think about cultural narratives and the gospel. T...
Last Trump-Xi meeting freed a pastor. Could it happen again?
China (MNN) – All eyes are on Washington today as Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House. While economic issues are expected to top the agenda, religious freedom advocates hope China’s imprisoned Christians won’t be forgotten. In Ma...
AI is transforming ministry in Iran
Iran (MNN) — Iran is among the fastest-growing churches in the world, but it is one of the most difficult places to reach with the Gospel. To fill the immense need, Lana Silk says Transform Iran developed an AI chatbot named Kairos, designed to lead people to Jesus Christ and gro...
Impossible for Apostates to Return? The True Meaning of Hebrews 6:4–6
Years ago, a woman wrote me with an agonized question. Despite having grown up in the church, she had left it for a life of sin and now regretted her wayward paths. Yet she was unsure if she could ever return to the Lord and receive his forgiveness. The main reason for her uncert...
Fear-Driven Churches Create Three Kinds of Christians
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Last week, I taught a university class on respect for the conscience. One smart young student talked to me afterward and said she sometimes had difficulty telling the difference between her conscience and the...
Christians Came Together to Help Defeat UK’s Assisted Dying Bill
When Alicia Edmund heard the Parliament vote count for the UK’s assisted dying bill last week—286 noes to 270 ayes—her immediate reaction was shock. The bill had been defeated. As head of policy for the Evangelical Alliance in the UK, Edmund had spent countless hours in the past ...
Swallowed Up by Life
What happens when life swallows mortality? John Piper shows from 2 Corinthians 5:4 that God remakes our bodies to see and savor his glory.Watch Now
Christ Sweetens Every Friendship
Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel. (Proverbs 27:9) The sweetness of friendship has often been sweetest for me in the worst times. I say “often” because I have enjoyed so many mountaintop moments with friends: taking ...
Pastor Roundup: How to Prepare a Preaching Calendar
I (Jared) began seminary in 2001. Shortly after I arrived on campus, my Greek professor told all the aspiring pastors in our class that we should attend an after-hours workshop on expositional preaching. The event was being held in a small lecture hall in the library’s basement, ...
Jesus is desperately needed in this 100 percent Muslim nation
Maldives (MNN) — What would you do if professing Christ meant losing your citizenship? That is the bitter reality for believers in the Republic of the Maldives, a small island nation to the southwest of India. Floyd Brobbel with Voice of the Martyrs, Canada says that the Maldives...
Iran’s turmoil grows, but Christians are praying for a deeper transformation
Iran (MNN) — A spokesperson for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it will use different weapons, strategies, and targets if the United States escalates the war. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is the militia arm of Iran’s regime, controlling the majority of activity in...