Public Theology

How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.

The top 10 picks of CT’s editor in chief range from dystopian fiction to philosophy, with a dose of Sabbath poems, Inklings, and country music.

A bit of gallows humor can remind us that death does not have the final word.

The nonstop news cycle will be crazy. You don’t have to be.

In this season, a baby’s cry can say more than a simple “Merry Christmas.”

Real hope is not an argument, an opioid, or a sunnier form of despair. It’s a person named Jesus.

Human suffering should not cause us to categorize our neighbor but to be one.

Algorithms strip us of mystery. The Gospels restore our ability to be astonished by the truth.

What natural disasters reveal about God and neighbor.

The Christian apologist calls believers to embody Jude 3.