Theology+Spirituality

Why You Can’t Name the Virtues
Our culture has abandoned a wealth of teaching on character formation. Let’s revive these lost arts.
Your Digital Life, Hidden with Christ
Serving the God ‘who sees in secret’ in a world where there's pressure to post everything.
God Calls Me to Motherhood and Art. How Do I Do Both?
The cofounder of a new art and vocation institute in South Carolina aims to address the intersection of faith, family, creativity, and calling.
Jackie Hill Perry: You Are Not Your Temptations
Three insights for understanding same-sex attraction and sanctification.
Bearing False Witness
Arab theologians advise Americans not to fear Islam’s alleged “permission to lie.”
Let’s Talk About the Decline of Conversation in the Church
The modern world has crippled our capacity for speaking with one another. How can we restore this dying art?
Much Ado About Gender Roles
Feeling lost in the discussions about biblical gender roles? Start here.
Jonathan Merritt Wants to Reboot Religious Language for the 21st Century
But his method of restoring “sacred words” to our common vocabulary runs the risk of redefining them.
In the Beginning Is Silence
Why Christian activity should start with non-activity.
Heaven Shines, But Who Cares?
The Bible's blueprint for paradise lowers the awe-inspiring to the everyday.
Have Mercy as God Has Mercy
Mercy is what holiness looks like in the lives of God's children.
Job’s Most Beloved Verse May Be Different Than You Think
Job 13:15 is more anguished—and encouraging—in its original wording.
Who Is My Digital Neighbor?
A Christian call to reject polarizing public discourse.
Fixing Our Privacy Settings
Why Christians should worry less about protecting their information and think more about giving it away.
How US Law Defines Privacy
Legal definitions of privacy focus on these three key areas of protection.
Madeleine L’Engle: ‘We Must Be Willing to Live by Paradox and Contradiction and Surprise’
A new “spiritual biography” of the author of A Wrinkle in Time celebrates her refusal to be pigeonholed.
Russell Moore: Family Life Isn’t Just Humbling—It’s Humiliating
But our failures as parents and spouses, as sons and daughters, ultimately point the way to something better.
Europe’s Big Mission Field: Nominals
How do you persuade someone who already thinks they’re a Christian to become one?
How Faith Changes Campus Sex Assaults
Cultures of restraint fare better than cultures of mere consent, research shows.
Jackie Hill Perry: I Loved My Girlfriend—but God Loved Me More
How an epiphany about the wages of my sin opened the door for his cleansing light.

Top Story May 4, 2024

Conservative Methodists, Unite
Conservative Methodists, Unite
After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

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