News

Go Figure

Recent figures and statistics on temptation, atheism, and clergy.

Pastors

52%: Americans who said in 2012 that clergy are highly honest.

50%: Americans who said in 2009 that clergy are highly honest. It was a record low.

7: Professions deemed more honest than clergy in 2012. (Nurses were No. 1.)

Source: Gallup

Sin

Americans who admit to the following temptations:

Eating too much

66%: Protestants

44%: Catholics

55%: All Americans

Gossip

22%: Protestants

29%: Catholics

26%: All Americans

Source: The Barna Group

Atheism

70%: Increase in church attendance among atheist scientists with children, compared to those without children.

Source: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

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The CT archives are a rich treasure of biblical wisdom and insight from our past. Some things we would say differently today, and some stances we've changed. But overall, we're amazed at how relevant so much of this content is. We trust that you'll find it a helpful resource.

Cover Story

Here Come the Radicals!

Django Unchained and the Quest for Revenge

Jeffrey Overstreet

Testimony

The Atheist's Dilemma

Jordan Monge

News

Why Latino Enrollments Are on the Rise

Andrew Thompson

Who Defines Doctrine?

My Top 5 Books on Creativity

More Than a Right

Sharon Hodde Miller

Review

Is Longer Life Better?

Rob Moll

Review

Anxious About Assurance

Phillip Cary

I Love You—I Just Don't Trust You

Bigger Than We Think

David Wilkinson

Happy Meals

Interview by LaVonne Neff

News

Flip That Church

Melissa Steffan

The Sabbath Swimming Lesson

Susan Wunderink

What Classic Spiritual Discipline Needs the Most Renewal Among American Christians?

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Anne Graham Lotz, and Dallas Willard

Hotter Than All the Fifty Shades in the World

Megan Hill

Editorial

The Future of Today's Christianity

Mark Galli and Andy Crouch

News

How a Catholic-Pentecostal Split Could Help Nigeria's Militant Islamists

Sunday Oguntola in Lagos, Nigeria

Letters to the Editor

News

Gleanings

News

Quotation Marks

Giving It Everything

The Love Shack

News

Radical Proposal to Weed Out 'Fake Pastors' Splits Kenyans

Tom Osanjo in Nairobi, Kenya

Quick Takes

Wilson's Bookmarks

John Wilson

Excerpt

Jesus Doesn't Need Help

Tyler Wigg-Stevenson

News

Should an Iowa Dentist Have Fired his Attractive Assistant?

Compiled by Ruth Moon

Orphans in Limbo

News

Sovereign Grace Ministries: Courts Shouldn't 'Second-Guess' Pastoral Counseling of Sex Abuse Victims

Bobby Ross Jr.

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Republicans and Democrats Clash on Epstein File Release

The Bulletin with Nicole Martin

The newest documents remind Christians to support sexual abuse victims.

Evangelicals Confront a Revolutionary Age

A Catholic on the campaign trail and the “possibly catastrophic character of what is happening under our eyes” caused deep concern in 1960.

News

Hindu Nationalists Attack Missionaries in Northern India

One victim describes the mob descending on their bus, a rare occurrence in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

News

Armenia Holds Inaugural Prayer Breakfast Amid Church Arrests

Some see the crackdown as persecution, others challenge the national church’s ties to Russia.

Review

A New Jesus Horror Movie Wallows In Affliction

Peter T. Chattaway

“The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage, is disconnected from biblical hope.

The Bulletin

Israeli Settler Violence, Epstein Emails, and BrinGing Back Purity

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

West Bank skirmishes, Congress releases Epstein documents mentioning Trump, and Gen Z reconsiders purity culture.

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Meanwhile in China, the house church continues to gather and baptize new believers.

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Kenyan Clergy Oppose Bill Aimed at Regulating Churches

Moses Wasamu

Pastors say the proposed law could harm religious freedoms.

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