Christgiving
“People are always telling you that change is a good thing. All they’re really saying is that something you didn’t want to happen at all has happened,” says Kathleen Kelly, the children’s-bookstore-owner heroine who’s losing her Shop Around the Corner in the classic rom-com You’v...
Can guilty people count on God’s help? John Piper opens Exodus 17:1–7 to show that Christ bought the help sinners need.Watch Now
North America (MNN) – As Christian youth face pressures on every side, the On Eagles’ Wings Leadership Center helps equip Native young people to change their world. Equipping Students and Solidifying Next Steps The On Eagles’ Wings Leadership Center has been active for only a few...
Parents, let’s ask ourselves a searching question: If our children had to say what God is like based on how we act toward them, what might they say? Note that the question concerns not “what we teach them” but “how we act toward them” — our typical moods and demeanors, our everyd...
I talk about my soon-to-be missionary parents often, and there’s pride on my face each time. I love to tell how the Lord has gifted them with a heart for the nations and how they’ve prayed for the opportunity to go for years. What I don’t talk about as much is my grief. It goes u...
What if your greatest need is not relief? John Piper opens Exodus 17:1–7 to show how God’s presence meets our deepest need.Watch Now
Gathering with other Christians is a crucial way to encourage and be encouraged in Christ. But do we really need to gather every week?Listen Now
On rainy Sunday afternoons in my childhood, I’d go over to my grandparents’ house and watch I Love Lucy. In several episodes, Lucy and Ethel head off to bridge club. The card game is an excuse for gossip to move the plot forward. They shuffle the deck and swap secrets. Then they ...
Ukraine (MNN) — Five years of accumulated trauma have left teachers in Ukraine exhausted. David Durance says that TeachBeyond held a conference for teachers at a quiet oceanside resort to encourage them in fellowship and the Word. “Teachers were able to hear from each other that ...
USA (MNN) — If it seems like you’re seeing sign language interpreters more often on the news or at big events, you’re not mistaken. “Many people would recognize that we’re seeing more and more visibility of sign language and Deaf communities. It’s become pretty standard, for inst...
Lebanon (MNN) — Imagine your child in a war zone. Even if you weren’t directly in the line of fire, how would the sights and sounds of conflict affect your little one? In Lebanon, at the height of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, “We've [seen] families fleeing for their live...
Haiti (MNN) – Schools are swinging into gear in many places including Haiti. Roseline DeHart with For Haiti with Love says that while school began on September 7, many desks in Cap Haitien are empty. Missing the Finances for School DeHart says that with increased gang violence in...
Plenty of books, articles, and essays about so-called artificial intelligence are a bit boring. They may be accurate, knowledgeable, worthy, even wise, but they often lack the key elements of drama that make writing captivating: conflict and resolution, expectation and surprise, ...
Lebanon (MNN) – For some children in Lebanon, the first day of school comes without a classroom. The nation's public school calendar begins today, six months after renewed war between Hezbollah terrorists and Israel uprooted more than one million Lebanese people. Roughly 360,000 ...
Men are flailing and floundering in today’s world. So say any number of journalists, researchers, and other worried observers, who see American males slipping away from anchors of stability like marriage, community, and useful labor. These stories have recurring characters: older...
Bangladesh (MNN) — Elections in February and August this year brought greater political stability to Bangladesh after more than two years of an interim government in place. Now, Christians wait to see whether they’ll experience more protection. William Samaddar of FARMS Internati...
By the time I was in middle school, I had six different types of pets: a hamster, a rat, a gecko, a bunny, a cat, and a dog. (I desperately wanted a turtle, but my mom said no.) Each time I considered a new species, I remember thinking to myself, This animal is going to complete ...
USA (MNN) — In the United States, September 11, 2001 – known simply as “9/11” – is forever etched into the minds of those old enough to remember the day. Al Qaeda terrorists drove three hijacked passenger planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000 p...
Since Marcus testified against a major scam syndicate in a Manila courtroom in September 2023, the Burmese national has needed to hide his identity and constantly look over his shoulder, fearful that he would be re-enslaved, tortured, or killed. In May, the Philippine court annou...
Central Asia (MNN) — Hidden, daily pressure is being put on the church in Central Asia. David Durance with TeachBeyond says, “The headline looks okay. ‘Hey, there might be even more freedom,’ but the undercurrent is so very difficult.” As long as the church keeps to itself, there...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Did you hear the one about the Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs? Wasn’t it hilarious? Here’s the setup: A community of vulnerable people, escaping danger to their lives in their home country, are quiet...
I’ve written earlier in this series about the connection between homelessness and “adverse childhood experiences,” including unstable childhoods marked by movement around multiple foster homes. In centuries past, Americans hoped that orphanages would help to alleviate the damage ...
United States (MNN) — Every ministry has its challenges. But prison ministry is particularly difficult, says Jill Payne-Holman with Prisoners For Christ, a non-profit based in the United States with an international reach. “We're ministering to people who’ve hurt other people, an...
DRC (MNN) – Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have nearly doubled in a matter of weeks, as the country battles its largest outbreak on record. More than 6,600 cases are now confirmed, with nearly 3,200 deaths. The World Health Organization reports transmission i...
Lebanon (MNN) — Thousands of children in southern Lebanon are eager to start a new school year next week, but the question remains: where? “Nothing was done all through the summer to provide an alternative place to host internally displaced families,” Heart for Lebanon’s Camille ...
Afghanistan (MNN) — Rising tensions in Afghanistan continue to draw global attention, especially amid reports of Taliban abuses. Yet Greg Kelley of Unknown Nations urges believers to view Afghans through the lens of the Great Commission. Afghanistan is a very Islamic culture, Kel...
Israel (MNN) — War takes its toll on the men who fight it, but Jewish believers are stepping into the pain to offer a God of peace. Pastor Israel Pochtar says Beit Hallel Congregation came together with churches around Israel in a recent ministry event to build up men torn down b...
International (MNN) — How do you do a Bible study without the full Bible? Of the 7,393 known languages in the world, only 801 of them have a complete Bible, and 3,241 have no known Scripture translations at all. Most people do not think of sign language when they think of the unr...
This summer, LinkedIn added a response button to join previous options like “Save,” “Copy link to post,” and “Report post.” The new choice: “Seems like AI slop.” During the first two weeks, more than a million people clicked it. Some employers wish they had that same button. From...
The time for your mission has arrived. Trash bag in hand, you set poised to maneuver through a backyard strewn with little toy landmines, make it to the trash can in the alleyway, and return unscathed. One last step before you go: a quick glance outside to see who is back there. ...
Iran (MNN) — For many ethnic languages in Iran, Bible translation projects are on the cusp of breakthrough. The prayers and support of the global Church can help push them across the line. Transform Iran has already completed a New Testament audio dramatization for the Gilaki peo...
Courtney and Melissa talk to Blair Linne about her struggle with anxiety and panic attacks and the tools that have helped her to fight anxiety. They discuss the mind/body/spirit complexities of anxiety, when anxiety becomes sinful, and how to listen with compassion and wisdom to ...
Much will be written about Wendell Berry (1934–2026) in these days and weeks following his death. (Hopefully none of it will be AI-written . . . Berry would hate that.) His writing has shaped my soul in profound ways. Other than C. S. Lewis and Marilynne Robinson (and Terrence Ma...
This series on homelessness is what journalists call an explainer. If you’ve been reading along week by week, by now you know much about the facts of homelessness, including both its personal and societal causes. Now we’re getting to proposed solutions—and I’ll lay groundwork wit...
I remember the first time I resigned from a job. For weeks, probably months, I carried a sense of low-grade dread and unease as I anticipated the hard conversation with my boss. Like pulling a tooth or setting a bone, it’s better to just get on with it once you know it’s inevitab...
Footage of the egg under a microscope is mesmerizing, depicting a perfect sphere. As the grainy video plays, a single sperm makes contact with the egg’s surface, and suddenly a flash of light spreads from the point of contact. The whole surface of the egg is enveloped in light fo...
A black Toyota 4Runner covered in scratchy white chalk paint was parked outside Living Word Community Church in Red Lion, Pennsylvania, last year. The paint spelled out apocalyptic predictions: “On the 23rd and 24th of September, I will come to take my church —Jesus”; “More lockd...
The water of the soaking pool I’d chosen at the Olympus Spa was pretty perfect: 104 degrees and gently bubbling with hot tub jets. It was delightful, but I was exhausted, jet-lagged from a redeye flight, and in the heat of battle between two powerful instincts. One was to people-...
There’s an ever-increasing catalog of books critiquing evangelical Christians, many written by people who once called themselves evangelical. The popular narrative, propagated by cultural elites and magnified in mainstream media, is that evangelicals are hypocritical, insincere, ...
Syria (MNN) — New details emerge following a Kurdish pastor’s persecution in Syria this summer. Police arrested Pastor Nihad, the director of Kurdish ministry for Horizons International, while he visited northern Syria in late July. “Our vision was to go and gather [Kurdish belie...
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In December 1973, members of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) revolted against their church leadership over liberal drift. Affiliated seminaries had denied the infallibility of the Bible. Education committees had questioned Mosaic authorship of the Bible’s firs...
Christianity dominates many African nations, but this masks a troubling reality. Many African churches falter under the influence of the prosperity gospel, syncretism with traditional African religious practices, and nominal faith. Many professing Christians in Africa are inocula...
“How can I help?” Church family, friends, and even strangers often ask me this question. On a typical day, I run errands as if I’m preparing for a long trip. I’m carrying a backpack filled with medical supplies, wearing a bag with personal belongings, pushing a stroller containin...
This piece was adapted from CT’s books newsletter. Subscribe here. Craig Fehrman, This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark (Avid Reader Press, 2026) The Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806) is one of the most compelling stories in American history. Searching for a w...
Southeast Asia (MNN) — God’s Word is being made known among the nations. Christians across nine countries and 18 denominations in Southeast Asia came together recently to learn how churches can take ownership of Bible translation. Dane says his ministry, unfoldingWord, co-sponsor...
Haiti (MNN) — A gang leader known as “Izo 2” or “Didi” holds more than 50 people hostage in a mountain village outside the Haitian capital. If security forces kill gang members while trying to recapture the village, Didi says he’ll take hostages’ lives in return. The captives are...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes, when telling someone how to get to my house, I will say, “I’m just down the road from Dolly Parton.” For almost everybody in Nashville, that is almost a better locator than a pin on a GPS map. And ...
Growing up, August was a month for lamentation. It signaled the rapid approach of the school year and the end to summer’s leisurely days of wonder and adventure. The start of school, C.S. Lewis once quipped, teaches one to live by faith, “for at the beginning of each term, home a...
Namibia (MNN) — Mission Cry is sending its first shipment of free Bibles, Christian books, and seminary materials to Namibia. Namibia is located in southern Africa, directly north of South Africa, and on the west coast of Africa. Though 90% of the people in the country are profes...
Holy Land (MNN) — Christians have left the Holy Land in droves for decades. In 1948, believers made up around 10 percent of the population, compared to less than two percent today. Now, war threatens to silence the voice of those who remain. Yet Bethlehem Bible College is giving ...
E. M. Forster’s 1909 short story “The Machine Stops” depicts a dystopian world of individuals kept apart from one another in pods. The culture Forster imagined discourages leaving one’s pod for embodied, human interaction, and—relieved of the need to work and having learned to fr...
Bryant Myers passed away on August 15 after many years of helping Christian relief and development organizations, seminaries, churches, and practitioners see poverty and the people experiencing it in new ways. He worked in both the practical setting of World Vision and the academ...
Iraq (MNN) — Corruption is a huge problem in Iraq, but could things be changing? The “Dawn Crackdown,” which began at dawn on June 28 under the new prime minister and has continued for the months since, has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of embezzled money. Rece...
Pakistan (MNN) — A Gospel worker is on the run in Pakistan following a military intelligence raid. Security forces confiscated studio equipment during last week’s raid on an underground recording studio operated by FMI. “This is not a simple ministry inconvenience,” explains an F...
Revelation 11 depicts “two witnesses” who minister for “1,260 days.” These witnesses possess authority to “[consume] their foes” with “fire” that comes from “their mouth.” They also “have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall” and “to turn [waters] into blood” and “str...
