The new Global Methodist Church will leave the UMC regardless of the General Conference decision, which has been delayed until 2022.

At legal aid clinics, attorneys ask “Who would Jesus represent in court?”

It took Aramaic speakers 1,500 years to agree on Christology, now their main debate is over Assyrian identity. Could Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq encourage unity?

Ronnie Martin and Jared Wilson discuss grief in the pastor’s life with CT editor in chief Daniel Harrell.

The largest Christian adoption agency is now calling on “Christians with diverse beliefs” as it aims to serve more children under a new inclusion policy.

Jesus saw the disastrous end of faith-fueled zealotry and warned against it.

Elaine Howard Ecklund examines curiosity, shalom and other virtues that scientists and Christians share.

Ten years after Pakistan’s highest Christian official was martyred, religious freedom advocates apply his life’s lessons.

Multicolored scholarship expands biblical interpretation beyond traditional Eurocentric perspectives.

On our new podcast, Daniel Harrell and Clarissa Moll discuss how sudden loss shapes the grief experience and influences the spiritual lives of those left behind.

How his example can encourage believers who “walk in darkness, and see no light.”

Political tensions and growing racial awareness have fueled interest in its message of social justice and biblical morality.

Setting Sundays aside for joy infuses our grief with some glory.

Jesus made clear that we pledge allegiance only to God. But some Christian education pledges allegiance to the world too.

To reach the most vulnerable, leaders say vaccine sites have to set up in hard-hit neighborhoods and let churches spread the word.

How Cathy and Daryl Heald’s biological children led them to care for orphans.

Landmark trip will include Qaraqosh, where most families fled ISIS yet some are now trying to restore the Christian heartland of the Nineveh Plains.

The Saddleback Church pastor developed the popular Christ-centered 12-step program for “hurts, habits, and hang-ups.”

The charges against him don’t make sense. And his day in court has been delayed again and again.

When research looks beyond affiliation, the move away from religious institutions becomes more nuanced.

The conservative media personality drew attention and listeners amid a major shift in religious broadcasting.

Top leaders address divides in the denomination at the first in-person Executive Committee meeting in a year.

How a group of white church planters learned to listen to African Americans and build a better Christian community.

With a Christian activist in jail and a grandmother humiliated, religious freedom advocates weigh the value of progress in church legalization and public rhetoric.

Ronnie Martin and Jared Wilson discuss introversion and extroversion in ministry.

President Mahmoud Abbas sets their quota at 7 seats in first elections in West Bank and Gaza since 2006.

World body challenges North African nation over its treatment of Christians, while local evangelical leaders take heart in renewed protests.

New leader of Middle East Council of Churches says the quality of believers preserves their witness, if not their numbers.

A historian weighs in on how the medieval tradition can shape the days leading up to Easter.

With new president, Atlantic churches seek fuller reckoning with complicated history.

Maybe there's a better name in our polarized and politicized times.

Authorities found his church continued to meet as normal over months rather than comply with capacity, mask, and distancing regulations.