13+ hour, 36+ min ago  (197+ words) John Perkins, in Life and Facing Death'Christianity Today "The most influential African American Christian leader since Dr. King." That's what University of Virginia religious studies professor Charles Marsh in 2008 called John M. Perkins, who is 95 and under hospice care. But I…...

13+ hour, 36+ min ago  (894+ words) Good literature can steady and orient unmoored men in their early years. But for renewal, they need to read Scripture. One answer keeps surfacing for men's struggles in our modern world: books. In podcasts, essays, Substack newsletters, and social media…...

18+ hour, 36+ min ago  (1052+ words) Pastor Mazen Hamate during a back-to-school event that his church hosted for Syrian children in September 2025. Throughout 2025, Hanan and his church weathered sporadic armed clashes in the city. But in January this year, tensions between the Syrian government and Kurdish…...

18+ hour, 36+ min ago  (753+ words) The Tower of Babel by Lucas van Valckenborch "In City of God, Augustine defines a people or tribe as "an assemblage of reasonable beings bound together by a common agreement as to the objects of love." Augustine had in view…...

18+ hour, 36+ min ago  (247+ words) Episode 251 | 1 hr 0 min The author of Theo of Golden sits down with Russell in Andrew Peterson's Chapter House for a conversation on the breakout novel. NO SPOILERS! Watch the video of this episode on YouTube here. Russell is joined by…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (830+ words) Writing a comprehensive history of American Christianity is a mammoth undertaking that few historians attempt. It's been more than half a century since the best-known landmark in the field'Sydney Ahlstrom's 1,100-page'A Religious History of the American People'and after that, some…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (777+ words) The inner block of Allahabad high court. A pastor in a remote village in India's largest state of Uttar Pradesh remembers the Sunday in March 2023 when persecution became real to him. He was leading a group of 13 people in worship…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (675+ words) Manager Joe Espada of the Houston Astros participates in spring training workouts at CACTI Park in West Palm Beach, Florida on February 14, 2026. "Jesus, it seems, is coming across as the next best thing to a home-court advantage," Deford wrote: Athletes'are…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (1235+ words) The gospel is good news. Good news, as Martin Luther taught the church, comes in the form of a promise. It is not law, which binds us to our past; it is promise, which opens up our future. It declares,…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (1016+ words) I recently visited multiple congregations across Minnesota, including River Valley Church. As I stood inside each church, what I witnessed was not anecdotal or exaggerated. It was empirical and deeply troubling. As national immigration-enforcement politics evolve, churchgoers across the Midwest…...