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Is Your Church Prepared for a Pastor with Disabilities?
“You have to come check out this church,” my mom excitedly told me. “The pastor reminds me of you. He’s in a wheelchair and full of so much joy!” That day, in my early 20s, was the first time I saw someone like me front and center in a church. It was a wonderful surprise. Read mo...
Review: ‘Daniel and the Fiery Furnace’
The Bible movies and TV shows of the past few decades—going back to 1995’s Joseph and 1998’s Prince of Egypt—have tended to cover four basic categories: Genesis, Moses, Saul and David, and Jesus and the disciples. Origin stories, in other words, about the earliest days of Judaism...
How Privatized Spirituality Makes Us Lonely
Over the past three years, I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard someone say something like “I believe in God, but I’m against organized religion,” “I’m spiritual, but I’m not religious,” or “I have faith, but I don’t need to be a part of a church.” As Brad Edwards points ...
AI Tech Bros Seem Awful. They Might Be Telling Us the Truth.
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Our science fiction movies had it wrong. They always pictured that, when a mad scientist said his creation was now out of his control and the very survival of the species might be at stake, people would eithe...
Why I'm a Professional ‘Third Wheel’
It’s five o’clock rush hour on Wednesday afternoon, and I’m trying to think happy thoughts on my weekly one-and-a-half-hour drudge through Nashville to visit my friends Chase and Paige. The drive itself is easily my least favorite part of the week, but as I arrive and see their 3...
How ‘Harm Reduction’ Harms the Homeless
For many years, it was widely accepted that the way to help people addicted to drugs was to support them through detoxing: Get the substance out of their system to give them a shot at life without it. More recently, however, the doctrine of “harm reduction” has partially supplant...
When Lack of Accountability Leads to the ‘Death of the Pastor’s Wife’
“The church has died. The church has closed down,” said lawyer Russell Long. Long was representing John-Paul “JP” Miller, pastor of the nondenominational Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The church’s closure was due to external pressure, Long claimed. For months...
Jonah and the People God Pitied
Why does God rescue rebels? John Piper shows from Jonah 4:1–11 how mercy received becomes mercy shown.Watch Now
Christ Delights in Work Well Done
“What do you like about the kind of work you do?” I asked a fellow dad as we watched our sons during their basketball practice. It wasn’t an unusual question for me to ask, as I’m naturally curious about people’s careers and work environments. His answer, however, surprised me: “...
Why We Said ‘No’ to IVF and ‘Yes’ to Embryo Adoption
The 2019 Book of Common Prayer contains a liturgy of thanksgiving for the birth of a child and one of thanksgiving for the adoption of a child. When our daughter was born in September 2024, we asked our pastor to come to the hospital to pray both these prayers for our new baby. N...
The Backlash Against a White House Plan to Pay Stay-at-Home Parents
Beverly Hallberg has helped conservatives craft their policies and messages for over 20 years. As president of a training firm, District Media Group, she’s often the one behind the scenes prepping faith-based and conservative influencers and lawmakers on how to get ready for prim...
The Seductive Ideology of Estrangement
The most revealing sign of civic unrest is not the slogans shouted in public but the relationships abandoned in private. Since 2020, I’ve traveled around the country giving talks on a destabilizing ideology that seemed, almost overnight, to be everywhere. The Q&A sessions quickly...
1 Corinthians 2:1–5, Part 3: What Is the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power?
How did Paul demonstrate the power of the Spirit in his ministry? By preaching in weakness, Paul showed a faith that boasts only in Christ crucified.Watch Now...
Christian Women and the Poison of Porn
According to Covenant Eyes, an esteemed internet accountability and screen-monitoring service, 40 percent of professing Christian women consume pornography. That is astoundingly tragic because “consuming pornography” is consuming poison. If you are reading this and you are one of...
Why Our Baptist Forebears Wouldn’t Support Blasphemy Laws
In recent weeks, there’s been quite a dustup over a recently released book in which R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, argues that “the government has the full right to restrict and punish blasphemy.” Not only was this an about-face from...
"Here on my own will": Maharashtra churches adapt to anti-conversion law
India (MNN) – Name. Address. Government ID. In parts of Maharashtra, India, going to church now comes with paperwork. Some churches are asking worshippers to sign consent forms stating they came voluntarily and were not pressured to convert. The precaution comes after Maharashtra...
Houthis tighten their grip as millions in Yemen face hunger and uncertainty
Yemen (MNN) — Conflict within Yemen and with its neighbors has been escalating. Last week, the Iran-backed Houthis attacked four cities in Saudi Arabia, wounding dozens and damaging oil facilities. They proceeded to capture Yemen’s port city of Mocha on September 10, which was fo...
Wendell Berry, ‘Bad-Weather Churchgoer’
Wendell Berry—who died on August 31 at the age of 92—deeply influenced countless Christians through his fiction, essays, and poetry. I count myself among his adoring fans. To me, Berry was a prophet, critiquing the church’s excesses and idols while proclaiming what it could be, a...
Christian Humility Isn’t Just ‘Thinking of Yourself Less’
Scripture honors and commands humility, but what does it look like in practice? A line widely misattributed to C. S. Lewis offers a memorable answer: “Humility is not thinking less of ourselves; it is thinking of ourselves less.” That definition has been popular among American Ch...