Christianity

by Alex Billington April 24, 2020Source: YouTube "He wanted to destroy the kingdom I've been building my whole life." Film Movement has released the US trailer for a Polish historical epic titled Sword of God, which originally premiered at a Polish film festival in 2018. It also played at Cinepocalypse,…

In place of love, they’re offering stark self-righteous judgment. April 24, 2020 Contributing writer for The Atlantic Getty / The AtlanticIf the coronavirus is a test of our collective character, some American Christians are flat-out flunking.Consider the popular pastor John Piper, who was asked what he would say to pastors…

Discussed in this essay: Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard, by Clare Carlisle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 368 pages. $28. Throughout its history, philosophy has been marked by figures who sought to demolish the prevailing intellectual systems of their moment—to practice “philosophy with a hammer,” as…

Levi Skipper just published a piece at the website for Georgia’s Baptist Churches that goes into some detail about why God is serving the world a heaping helping of coronavirus. What benevolent, worship-worthy deity would kill 180,000 innocent people, you may well ask — including many staunch believers who’d praised…

Because of its long history, Christianity has a tendency to produce contradicting reactions to any number of situations—and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. On one hand, some religious leaders have shown that they believe a Christian response to the global emergency involves steps such as making allowances for…

Evangelist Franklin Graham is one of those Christians who thinks he deserves respect by the sheer virtue of being a Christian with his last name. Maybe if his organization Samaritan’s Purse focused on helping people, that could be the case. But it’s not. The organization requires all volunteers to be…

Last August, a federal court blocked a South Carolina school district from including Christian prayers at graduation ceremonies. It was the culmination of a six-year legal battle that could have been resolved much more quickly if the school officials weren’t so eager to push God onto those audiences. Now it’s…

Like many pastors, Steve Smothermon of Legacy Church in Albuquerque wanted to host an in-person service on Easter Sunday. But like everyone else in the country, he was told to make some sacrifices as we all try to battle COVID-19. Allowing his megachurch to gather in person would increase the…

Kansas Christian Daryl Jones was among the chosen few to be interviewed for a newspaper story about how the COVID crisis is deepening people’s faith. No one told him that at most, he’s only supposed to quietly think that believing in God is like believing in Santa. Since Daryl didn’t get that memo, we…

With streets deserted, hospitals full and morgues struggling to cope with the number of bodies, it isn't surprising that some people are making comparisons with the apocalypse. The idea of an apocalypse, a time of catastrophic suffering, has existed for thousands of years. Although things seemed bleak during ancient times…