Christgiving
On a narrow street in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo District sits a glass-fronted building that looks like an ordinary café. A neon-lit staircase descends to a dim performance space where lyrics flash across a large screen as driving music fills the room. Young ministers and attendees mov...
We all agree that hospitality is wonderful. The Bible commands it: “Show hospitality to one another without grumbling” (1 Peter 4:9). The picture of people surrounding your table laughing and eating is a rosy scene indeed. And certainly, it’s something we’d like to practice — if ...
What does Christ’s purchase mean for believers? John Piper opens Romans 1:1 to show that those he bought belong to him.Watch Now
The hiss of the cappuccino machine filled the coffee shop, forcing him to lean in and raise his voice. “Show me,” he said, “where Jesus or the apostles ever told Christians they no longer had to keep the law of Moses.” I remember realizing that, if I were honest, I wasn’t entirel...
India (MNN) – One detail in Maharashtra’s new anti-conversion law looks like a win for religious freedom. But looks can be deceiving. The western Indian state became the 13th in the country to enact an anti-conversion law when the Maharashtra Freedom of Religion Act took effect A...
While advising the bishops of the Church of England on the term Christian nationalism earlier this year, Luke Bretherton, regius professor of moral and pastoral theology at the University of Oxford, had a straightforward piece of advice: Don’t use it. “The term Christian national...
Iran (MNN) — Amid war, protests, and social change, Iran finds itself at a crucial crossroads. Samira Nazari with Iran Alive Ministries says that millions of dissatisfied Iranians are turning their backs on the God of Islam. And the religion’s primary evangelist, the corrupt regi...
France (MNN) — Violence has overshadowed the original concerns behind the protests in France. Weekend demonstrations on October 17–18 involved looting, arson, and graffiti on national monuments, as hundreds of thousands of people across France marched. “Some cities had very peace...
Algeria (MNN) — Two police raids on Christian communities within one month highlight the growing challenges facing believers in Algeria. Once home to influential Christian leaders like St. Augustine, Algeria is now predominantly Muslim, with Christians making up an estimated 1% o...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Several years ago, Shane Claiborne joined me on my podcast to tell me where I was wrong on the death penalty. He is against it; I was for it. I told him afterward that he had “almost persuaded me,” but not qu...
Last month I took my kids to visit a small family cemetery where my father and brother are buried. My 4-year-old, full of questions, had never seen a tombstone before. Her total ignorance reminded me that we live in a world where death exists mostly as an abstraction: We may ackn...
In the last 25 years, 40 million Americans have stopped attending church—the largest religious exodus in American history. Researchers have identified many reasons for this decline, but one thread runs through them: a generation that cares deeply about the world around them does ...
How does God make death serve his saints? John Piper shows from Acts 7:54–8:1 how the Spirit turned Stephen’s death into a doorway to Jesus.Watch Now
On a trip to Ukraine in 1991, my pastor friend and I spent the evening with a large family, feasting, singing hymns, laughing, and exalting Jesus together. We felt guilty when we learned our hosts had served an entire month’s ration of butter at the meal, but they assured us ther...
Dan Doriani and Mark Vroegop talk with Denise Daniels, the Hudson T. Harrison endowed chair of entrepreneurship at Wheaton College and coauthor of Working in the Presence of God, Religion in a Changing Workplace, and Working for Better. Drawing on a major research project that su...
Why does having the Holy Spirit make such a difference in how we judge between wisdom and folly? Only those with the Spirit can see God’s wisdom as true wisdom.Watch Now...
ABSTRACT: The frontiers of missions are less clear than we might imagine. Complexities surrounding languages, geopolitical tensions, remote access, and a globalized, urbanizing world present fresh challenges for missions strategies. The church cannot rely only on the concepts and...
Last month marked 20 years since my Christianity Today cover story “Young, Restless, Reformed.” And last year, we recognized 20 years since the founding of The Gospel Coalition. During TGC’s most recent Colloquium, a private meeting of our Council, president Mark Vroegop asked me...
It’s common in our cultural moment to hear that “the rule of law is under attack.” Depending on your algorithm, the attackers come from different corners of the political-ideological spectrum. In my legal practice, the rule of law seems to function. But headlines and anecdotes re...
