I spent a lot of time thinking about the birds and the bees while growing up. I was raised in a rural community as the child and grandchild of farmers.…
On a warm and overcast day in April last year, I sat on a hospital cot in a gown and grippy socks waiting for my doctor to perform a minor…
Andrée McDonald was 48 years old and losing her battle with uterine cancer when she chose to end her life through euthanasia. Her husband and parents found out about her…
Manuel Mayllazhungo had been detained in upstate New York for a little over a week when ICE officers told him he was being transferred south, to a facility in Louisiana.…
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Let’s talk about your magnum opus, The Crucifixion. How has the Cross been central to your own pastoral call and sustaining…
We are rushing from church on a Sunday afternoon, in the rain, to find parking for the penultimate performance of the new pop-rock musical Mythic. Premiering in the US at…
This evening we are at the park. My son collects sticks and rocks and tennis balls and trash, dirt on his pants, drool on his shirt. He decides to go…
Three years ago, Christi Angel was desperate to talk to her close friend—and first love—Cameroun. When he had last texted her, she was overcome by the busyness of life and…
Representative Chip Roy was staring at me, baffled. I had sidled up to the Texas Republican while he was leaving the House chamber one afternoon last spring to ask him about…
So much of pregnancy is numbers. How many days since your last menstrual period? How many babies are in there? How long is the femur? How thick is the placenta?…
Once, I had to help someone lose her faith. Kind of. She was coming out of a prosperity gospel background in which people used the admonition “Have faith” to manipulate…
At Christmas, the Hephzibah House on the Upper West Side looks like something out of a movie. The first level of the historic brownstone has a cozy parlor with a…
If you grew up in purity culture, you probably remember the rose. A preacher holds up a perfect red flower, full and fragrant, and passes it through the crowd. As…
Here in the rural heart of Burundi, there is a red dirt route that serves as a 5k walk for me. Down the hill, across a small stream, then keep…
Got a question? Email advice@christianitytoday.com to ask CT’s advice columnists. Queries may be edited for brevity and clarity. Q: How much is too much? I’m thinking about all the unnecessary…
As an on-air radio personality, Jason Johnson used to spend his Sunday evenings playing contemporary Christian music at a station in northeast Ohio. But when the COVID-19 pandemic struck six…
In 2023, Dean Harrington knew his 34 years of running Shamrock Home Loans were over. His company had survived and even thrived through a rocky start, a split between founding…
For everything there is a season,” the Teacher tells us in Ecclesiastes. “A time to be born, and a time to die” (Ecc. 3:1–2, ESV). I remember the morning I…
On the descent, Portland looks like it did more than a decade ago, when I first started flying home from college for visits. The little city glimmers in light reflected…
Around two o’clock in the morning in 1953, Billy Graham awoke with an idea. The idea grew from years of conversations with Harold Ockenga, Carl Henry, and Charles Fuller. They…
The evangelical world includes a vast variety of perspectives, ethnicities, and geographies. It’s blue-collar and advanced degrees, covenantal and dispensational, Reformed and charismatic, and none of the above, all under…
Rather than calling God our Father, “we’ve come to prefer a picture of God as good ol’ Dad,” writes theologian Kirsten Sanders in the essay “God Is Not Your Dad.”…
I was born and raised in a Christian home in British Columbia, Canada, in the ’80s. I had always loved Jesus and followed him with a childlike faith. I can…
Today is Jim Houston’s 103rd birthday. When I visited him last month, he sat in a plush armchair and fiddled with his MacBook as pale sunlight streamed in from a…
In “Man Knows Not His Time,” Puritan Increase Mather preached in wintry 1696 Boston about the surprise of unexpected dying. Many of us do not know our own times regarding…
