Ideas

Prayer, fasting, and reading Scripture in community make our days more spacious.

Reckoning with a half-century of American evangelicals’ pursuit of a “seat at the table.”

The candidate’s “unburdened by what has been” and “coconut tree” lines push her party toward a troubling partisan divide over the past itself.

Jesus used his final moments with his disciples before the crucifixion to heal his opponent’s ear—and model the way of love.

Political violence looms large in our national history, to our shame. It does not have to define our future.

A government built on the assumption of its leader’s good character is a government badly built.

Two new books consider whether one depends on the other.

Jesus asked if we want to get well. But do we?

Russell Moore is joined by Marilynne Robinson for a conversation on reading Genesis as a story of grace.

Donald Trump owns many properties; American Christianity cannot be one of them.

Second only to Carnival, festivals for St. Anthony, St. John, and St. Peter pack the June calendar. Pastors debate if the Festas Juninas are folk celebrations or idol worship.

For all their faults, our marriage rituals present family and promise-keeping as beautiful, desirable, and worth the effort.

From embracing Western styles to preserving cultural heritage, how female leaders in six states navigate competing perspectives on appropriate attire.

This Juneteenth, the life of unsung civil rights hero Fred Shuttlesworth should be a clarion call to the biblical activism we still need to advance racial justice in America.

Reports of the death of fatherhood have been greatly exaggerated. There are many good dads, like mine, quietly blessing their children.

Christians are the victims of hate in some places and the targets of hate speech laws in others. How can believers advocate for nations to address both threats in a consistent, principled way?