Nelson and Gladys Gonzalez almost left the United States the easy way. It was 1996, half a decade after the Colombian couple came to the country illegally and found their…
The 27 huge dishes of the Very Large Array radio telescope were lined up on interconnected tracks, stretching for miles across the desert Plains of San Agustin in New Mexico.…
I was on the island called Patmos. To be precise, I was in the Orthodox Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, on a fortified hilltop once occupied by a temple…
Farming has been in my blood for seven generations. For seven generations I have been rooted to land and place. Trace our worn family line back as far as you…
When theologian David H. Kelsey asked in 1993 what happened to the traditional doctrine of sin, his concern was not that it had disappeared. It was rather that it had…
Colorado Springs, Colorado, was the center of American evangelicalism in the second half of the 20th century. Ministries relocated to a place whose government and chamber of commerce welcomed them.…
During my time as a college history professor, I taught a required course on Western civilization. Like many faculty peers, I tried different ways to motivate business and premed majors…
As a kid, I thought I was just curious—like any other kid. But the grown-ups called it being nosy. More often than I can recount, I would hear the words…
Earlier this year, I asked a friend to be a time traveler for a moment, and she and I ended up in the same place. The time machine wasn’t literal,…
When my family moved to Michigan over a decade ago, we were looking for something more than a three-bedroom house in our price range. We wanted a place of beauty,…
Each January, as Christmas is observed on the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar, the population of the quiet highland town of Lalibela swells with thousands of pilgrims. They arrive from farming villages,…
There’s no place like home. There’s no place like home.” These now-iconic words defined Dorothy Gale’s ultimate quest in The Wizard of Oz.In every song and with everyone she met,…
Of all the potential pathways into the world of snake-handling religion, Dennis Covington’s surely stands among the unlikeliest. In 1992, Covington worked as a freelance reporter for The New York…
The family foundation of the late Thomas Kinkade demanded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stop posting his art on social media. According to the family, the government agency…
In every family’s lore, peripheral characters pop up here and there, sometimes for a span of a few years, sometimes for decades. As you survey your memory, you will see…
The centuries of yearning behind the fulfillment of our Lord’s appearance have myriad small incarnations in the hearts of his people. We’re all waiting on something. Waiting for God to…
Got a question? Email advice@christianitytoday.com to ask CT’s advice columnists. Queries may be edited for brevity and clarity. Q: In a post on our neighborhood Facebook page, a distraught lesbian…
Two years ago, I stood amid thousands at a missions conference in Bangkok as people prayed and sought God for discernment about how and where to be witnesses for Christ.…
For over 50 years, the term unreached people groups has shaped evangelical missiology. First gaining traction in the 1970s through the work of US missiologist Ralph Winter, the concept is…
The term unreached people groups is increasingly a misnomer in the 21st century. We need a more vivid phrase to encapsulate the dynamism and fluidity of missions today. The growth…
The idea of unreached people groups is still relevant, useful, and helpful for missions today. Scripture is unequivocal about how God works through us and in us to tell the…
When I was 26, I fell in love with a girl I met in the newsroom. From my desk as a journalist for a daily newspaper in Curitiba, Brazil, I…
This year at CT, we’ve been focusing (understandably so!) on questions around artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI tools—models like Grok and Claude that use prompts to create original text or…
While many of us like to think of ourselves as self-made individuals, we are not so neatly defined or isolated. Our DNA bears genetic material from generations past. We pass…
