Christianity

In the aftermath of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, the United States is once again roiling in pain, struggling to come to terms with its violent reality. With every such act of mass murder, the American nation seems to be edging close…

A Facebook post credits founding father Thomas Jefferson with saying, “The reason Christianity is the best friend of Government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.” Verdict: False There is no evidence that Jefferson ever sai…

Last week, hip-hop artist NF shocked the music world by shooting to the top of the Billboard Artist 100 charts thanks to the unexpected success of his latest album, The Search. As news of NFs climb reverberated around the internet, numerous media outlets ran …

Columbus, Ohio The small group sat in the chapel of a Northeast Side church, fans whirring as they closed their eyes and listened to the soothing, hypnotic voice of William Carpenter tell them they are breathing in peace as they inhale. Were moving from pray…

POST-CHRISTIANITY: Methodist University Hires a Muslim Chaplain. Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:48 pm

Our hope for Look at the Book is to help you learn to read the Bible for yourself. We invite you to consider the featured study questions below before watching the lab. In this lab, John Piper explains that a quick way to become an enemy of God is to…

The first scene in HBO's new dark comedy The Righteous Gemstones is also the show's funniest. The show's titular Gemstones, an uber-successful family of televangelists led by Eli (John Goodman), his eldest son, Jesse (Danny McBride), and youngest son Kelvin (…

As part of the unnecessary trade war created by Donald Trump, he recently said he’d impose a $300 million tariff on Chinese goods… which, whether he understands it or not, would mean Americans have to pay more for Chinese products. Back in June, commenters p…

Its not every day you encounter a monastic who waxes poetic about the perils of modern partisanship. Or who cites Ricky Gervais as an example of how not to think about theology. And although black-habit-clad Sister Vassa Larin looks every bit the Russian Orth…

When I was a teenager in the 1970s, I looked to the heavens: to God and Christianity (as arbitrated by the Catholic Church) and to the soaring warbirds of the U.S. military, which I believed kept us safe. To my mind then, they were classic manifestations of A…