As a self-professed Bible nerd and a lover of symmetry, no discovery has made me happier than that of the chiasm, a literary structure beloved by writers in the ancient…
When my friend Dima is kept awake at night, he goes out onto his eighth-floor apartment balcony in Kyiv’s eastern suburbs to pray. In the skies above, wave upon wave…
Why might a thoughtful Christian choose to take an interest in poetry? Is there something in the poetic imagination that might be of special importance in an age that has…
On any given Sunday in New York City, an evangelical church of Guatemalan immigrants in Brooklyn worships in the indigenous Mayan language K’iche’; a South Indian Orthodox church in Queens…
Graham’s grandson Stephan Tchividjian sees the ‘heart of God’ reflected in the ministry.
The most tasteful invitation to contemplative prayer I have ever experienced was in a garden next to a charming British mansion. Along a path meandering through flowers and shrubs a…
In summer 2003, American evangelicals’ book-buying habits appeared to be fueled by fear around political destabilization from the 9/11 attacks, war in the Middle East, and potential financial fallout around…
In some ways, all eras of evangelical journalism are remarkably alike. It’s too cynical to conclude, with Ecclesiastes, that there’s nothing new under the sun, but similar issues and challenges…
Every few weeks, it seems, another AI achievement sets the world abuzz. It speaks! It paints! It digests a whole book and spits out a 10-minute podcast! This is generative…
Magazine articles, Substack newsletters, blog entries, Wikipedia pages, Tumblr feeds, Reddit threads, Facebook posts, AI overviews, WhatsApp messages, YouTube notes, TikTok captions, Instagram posts: These, and more, are the stuff…
I have been making books my entire life. In grade school, my teacher assigned a series of reports on the provinces of Canada. After writing one each week, I gathered…
Addressing the complaint that her writing wasn’t uplifting enough, Flannery O’Connor once quipped, “One old lady who wants her heart lifted up wouldn’t be so bad, but you multiply her…
Let’s say you want to write a book. You’ve got a captivating story to tell or a compelling argument to make. You’ve got a gift with words. That’s a good…
Two weeks after America’s COVID-19 shutdowns, a friend of mine gathered ten thoughtful Christian women to read the novel 1984. We called ourselves The Plague Reading Group, focused as we…
On a recent episode of The Bulletin, Christianity Today’s senior director of CT Media, Mike Cosper, spoke with journalist Krista Tippett, who has covered religion and spirituality across traditions on…
One of the books I loved in my youth was Watership Down by Richard Adams. For reasons I could not name at the time, the peculiar tale of a band…
Got a question for CT’s advice columnists? Email advice@christianitytoday.com. Queries may be edited for brevity and clarity. Q: Our small church is deliberately focused on three adjacent neighborhoods. One family,…
The well-worn cliché is true: They don’t teach you everything you need to know in seminary. When I was pastoring, I navigated my church through a highly combative and politically…
As I danced down the sidewalk, the monstrous cockroaches that emerged in hordes at night fled beneath my bare feet. I was 23, very high on LSD, and starring in…
More secular thinkers are turning to Christianity, wrote Nathan Guy in “Some of Christianity’s Biggest Skeptics Are Becoming Vocal Converts.” He asked, “How do we distinguish between those who have…
The influence of Christianity has declined in the United States. Yet in maternity wards across the country, when newborns scrunch up their tiny faces and fill their lungs with their…
A team of scientists germinated a millennia-old seed from the archaeological excavation of a cave in the Judean desert. They grew it in an Israeli greenhouse, and it is now…
