If I asked, could you summarize the entire story of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in five minutes or less? Could you tell me what God made on each…
“My office or a big room?” Miroslav Volf asked. His Blundstone boots carried his tall frame to a sputtering coffee machine. Before Volf got the last words out, his friend…
On our way to church every weekend, my family and I pass two sets of tennis courts, one municipal and one belonging to the local university. We’ve been taking this…
Jennifer Bute, the executive partner at a large general practice in Southampton, UK, was driving to her office in 2004 when she got lost. Suddenly, the 59-year-old doctor couldn’t remember…
Who am I? And how might I know? These questions are as old as humanity, asked in the ancient world just as today. Already in the fourth century BC, the…
Several episodes in season 5 of The Chosen begin with Jesus and the apostles gathered for the Last Supper, a Passover meal. In a ritual familiar from my Jewish childhood,…
By the time Day Sibley decided to embrace Ifa, a divination practice from the Yoruba people of Nigeria, she had long been on a search for identity that she could…
Ryan Burge “stumbled” into ministry, as he put it. He left the pastorate with his church in decline, but he has not yet given up on reviving religion in America. …
On our way to church every weekend, my family and I pass two sets of tennis courts, one municipal and one belonging to the local university. We’ve been taking this…
Certain Bible verses demand to be quoted in the King James Version, and Hebrews 10:25 is one of them. Following calls to “hold fast the profession of our faith without…
New Atheists like Richard Dawkins spent the better part of two decades preaching that science, not religion, was our key to unlocking the mysteries of the universe. Disenchantment was supposed…
I remember the first time I heard Craig Keener speak. The world-renowned scholar had recently published Miracles, a two-volume work providing a philosophical, biblical, and experiential case for the supernatural…
Among the 56 men who gathered in Philadelphia in the summer of 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence, 8 were immigrants to the American colonies. Two were born in…
Science fiction from my high school English class should have prepared me for a postliterate culture. We were assigned to read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Walter M. Miller Jr.’s…
One of the great pleasures of our work at Christianity Today is getting to spend so much time with books—with the scholarly discoveries, impassioned arguments, and pastoral encouragements shaping evangelical…
A disciple was someone who followed a rabbi around not only to learn doctrine but also to see its application in life. Jesus was one such rabbi, as we see…
Every quarter, my church’s book club meets to discuss a novel. We’ve read (among others) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Homer’s Odyssey, Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood, Percival Everett’s James, and Leif Enger’s…
Got a question? Email advice@christianitytoday.com to ask CT’s advice columnists. Queries may be edited for brevity and clarity. Q: What do you do about pastors whose preaching isn’t good? I…
When frontier evangelist “Raccoon” John Smith shared his testimony for the first time, he was nervous. In the early 1800s, he recounted his experience in typical fashion: He had been…
New data from the federal government shows that spending on new construction of churches and other houses of worship increased by 17 percent from June 2024 to June 2025, even…
A group of disparate disciples, now made kindred, stood atop the Mount of Olives processing revelations from Jesus (Acts 1:12). They had very little uniformity before, and now they had…
Two years ago, CT declared New Atheism dead, referring to an angry and vitriolic form of unbelief that arose in the early 2000s. Writer and editor Christopher Beha tackles today’s…
I grew up in an interfaith home in Seattle, a city cradled between mountains and water, where belief often felt like a patchwork quilt. Our house had a little Christmas,…
Sometimes being an editor is like being a sculptor. That’s how it felt to work on Isaac Wood’s essay “Faith After the Flood” (p. 42) in our September/October 2025 issue.…
