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Where Worship Doesn’t Translate
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 2

How groups like Hillsong learned to let go of the literal in favor of creative collaboration. The refrain “He is for you” doesn’t translate neatly into Spanish. In the English version of Elevation Worship’s song &ldq...

What Antisemitic Campus Chants Tell Us About This Angry Era
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 1

The rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. As Columbia University and other elite campuses erupt into protests against the United States’ ...

India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 1

The government plans to close its porous border with Myanmar to boost security, separating ethnic groups that straddle the boundary. Ngamreichan Tuithung runs a Christian boarding school that sits right at the border of India’s Manipu...

Care for the Environment Is Biblical. It’s Also a Witness to Environmentalists.
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 2

Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co laborers. I love nature documentaries, especially those narrated by David Attenborough. Whether watching with my childr...

After Schism, United Methodists Vote to Restructure Denomination
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 26 Abr 2024 19:31:02 EDT - 2

The plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same sex marriage and other theological issues. The top legislative body of the United Methodist Church passed a series of measures Thursday to ...

Your Church Drummer Has More and Less to Do These Days
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1

How the keeper of the beat is adapting to shifts in worship music. It was a church drummer’s worst nightmare. In the middle of a service, David Wagner was playing “Heaven Invade” with his worship band when his in ear monit...

Let the Cultural Christians Come unto Jesus
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1

The world is realizing anew that our faith has tangible benefits. This is an opportunity for the gospel. As Christianity continues to decline in the West, the broader world has begun to notice something’s missing. There seems to be a ...

If This Ain’t Country, Expand Your Canon
Christianity Today Magazine - Qui 25 Abr 2024 19:30:55 EDT - 1

Beyoncé’s right. Whether listening to Cowboy Carter or reading theology, diversity is a good thing. I wasn’t planning to listen to Cowboy Carter, the eighth studio album from American singer and songwriter Beyoncé. I’v...

Hold Your Clapbacks
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 23 Abr 2024 19:31:20 EDT - 1

C.S. Lewis recommended discernment over diatribes in exactly the moments we’re most eager to indulge in critique. I’d just finished reading one of C. S. Lewis’s lesser known books, Studies in Words, when I happened upon a rece...

Eco-anxiety Is Crippling Gen Z. How Can We Move Forward?
Christianity Today Magazine - Ter 23 Abr 2024 19:31:20 EDT - 1

Christians can disciple each other toward action, prayer, and hope. I’m 26 and mostly full of enthusiasm for the future. But when I think about the heat waves, floods, and humanitarian crises that I’ll likely experience in my li...

Panic Won’t Protect the Planet Well
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 22 Abr 2024 19:31:11 EDT - 1

I grew up as a climate change denier. Now I understand we must care for God’s creation and people alike. I grew up believing that Earth Day was a liberal holiday. Climate change was a lie, a ploy by leftist political activists to dismantl...

Let the Seas Rise and Feed the Poor
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 22 Abr 2024 19:31:11 EDT - 0

Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian. Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation in the world. It’s made up of an astounding 17,000 islands, with 70 percent ...

‘Bluey’: A Heavenly Vision of Life Together
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 19 Abr 2024 19:31:18 EDT - 1

The popular kids series reminds parents that playfulness is next to godliness. When my oldest daughter, Elaine, was four, I watched her chase a soap bubble around the yard, utterly spellbound, and it struck me as a tiny window into how God ...

Kenyan Pastors Are Praying for Haiti. They’re Also Shaping the Police Mission to Save It.
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 19 Abr 2024 19:31:18 EDT - 1

President William Ruto commissioned church leaders to meet with Haitian law enforcement, military representatives, and a gang leader to discuss Kenya’s security mission. Kenya’s leaders aren’t saying much publicly about the se...

Died: Mandisa, ‘Overcomer’ Singer and American Idol Star
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 19 Abr 2024 19:31:18 EDT - 2

The Grammy winning artist was found dead at her home in Nashville at age 47. Grammy Award winning contemporary Christian singer Mandisa Lynn Hundley, a former Lifeway Christian Resources employee and top 10 American Idol finisher, was found...

Interview: Finding an Uncontainable God Within Finite Poetic Spaces
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 17 Abr 2024 19:31:19 EDT - 2

Eastern Orthodox poet Scott Cairns reflects on his new collection, his journey of faith, and poetry’s capacity to apprehend inexhaustible realities. Fans of the Harry Potter series might recall the magical tents from Harry Potter and the ...

In Secular UK, Evangelical Alliance Experiences Record Growth
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 17 Abr 2024 19:31:19 EDT - 2

Leader explains why the movement is seeing its biggest membership bump in 30 years and its mission for the years ahead. As CEO of the United Kingdom’s Evangelical Alliance (EA), Gavin Calver sometimes compares the organization to the ...

Haitians Are Ministering at the End of the World
Christianity Today Magazine - Qua 17 Abr 2024 19:31:19 EDT - 2

As Haiti is uprooted by violence, church leaders treat gunshot wounds, give up homes for strangers, and rescue dignitaries. Pastor Frederic Nozil has learned to keep his head down. Last year, the year he turned 53, gangs attacked his neighb...

Sports Can Be a Touchdown for Faith. Beware of Encroachment.
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 15 Abr 2024 19:31:22 EDT - 5

As a lifelong athlete and coach, I know sports build character. But I worry about the idolatrous, selfish culture of American athletics. When my wife told me that my son received an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty at his football game, I wa...

More Pastors Are Leaving Ministry Over Church Conflict
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 15 Abr 2024 19:31:22 EDT - 4

But experts say it can offer opportunities for leaders and congregations to grow. Conflict had become the norm at Trinity Church in Redlands, California. The lead pastor left in 2022 amid a wave of disgruntled attendees. Following his depar...

Died: Beverly LaHaye, Pastor’s Wife Who Led Religious Right
Christianity Today Magazine - Seg 15 Abr 2024 19:31:22 EDT - 4

The founder of Concerned Women for America was credited by President Ronald Reagan with “changing the face of American politics.” Beverly LaHaye, a timid pastor’s wife who became a fierce champion for conservative Christian politi...

Your Neighbors (Probably) Don’t Hate You
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:31:29 EDT - 0

They might not even know you’re there. When paranoia eclipses our witness, here’s what to remember. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Some colleagues and I happened to be meeting in New Englan...

Our Faith Is Not Too Fragile for Science
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:31:29 EDT - 1

An excerpt from The Sacred Chain: How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith. I sat by myself at one end of the boardroom, fidgeting with a few notes on the table in front of me. At the other end were about ten older men in suits and...

More Porridge? Senegal Protestants Debate Exchanging Holiday Foods with Muslims
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:31:29 EDT - 1

Ngalakh combines baobab fruit and peanuts to end Easter in West African nation, reciprocated by the sharing of meat breaking Ramadan’s fast. In Senegal, Muslims love to share meat. Christians share porridge. Ending the monthlong Ramadan f...

Make Nepal Hindu Again: Christians Concerned by Rising Religious Nationalism
Christianity Today Magazine - Sex 12 Abr 2024 19:31:29 EDT - 1

Hindutva ideology is crossing the border from India and making ministry more challenging for churches in the former Hindu kingdom. More than 15 years after Nepal officially became a secular democracy, the former Hindu monarchy may have a re...