Persecution

Things weren’t looking good for the Thai church at the start of 2020. The southeast Asian nation was the first outside China to report a coronavirus case, and analysts feared a long, overwhelming outbreak. Instead, Thailand is now being praised as

I was desperate for encouragement but couldn’t even open my Bible. As my tears fell, the words I could not read welled up inside instead. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise

For being a member of a house church in Iran, 3 Christians were sentenced to 10 years in prison, and although they fled the country they are praying for each person who tortured them while in detention.Kavian Fallah-Mohammadi, Amin Afshar-Naderi

Let me begin with a brief lament. As a Christian philosopher who teaches future ministry leaders and speaks to lay leaders and pastors, I frequently defend the need for philosophy. Allowing for some slight exaggeration, a typical student comment goes

A court in China’s southern Fujian province has summoned a house church preacher and his wife for choosing instead to homeschool their kidsinstead of sending them to public school.House Church Pastor and Wife in China Face Charges for Homeschooling Kids

Problems in Scripture work like speed bumps: They may be frustrating, and they can do damage to the unwary, but they effectively slow us down and focus our attention. Tensions provoke thought. Apparent contradictions force us to wrestle with texts

On the morning of our wedding, my husband, Tim, wrapped a special gift for each of my two children and delivered them with handwritten cards. He chose a leather-banded watch for the older and a pair of birthstone amethyst earrings

September 10 was supposed to be my first day of teaching online. Almost exactly six months before, I stood in a classroom and asked my students if reports of the coronavirus made them feel afraid. It turned out to be

The natural human inclination is to react. We see and observe certain things to be true about our world, and based on our life history, personality, and gifts, we respond in a way that ideally brings honor to God. For

In a video announcement following the online service at First Baptist Church in Atlanta on Sunday, longtime pastor Charles Stanley announced his transition to pastor emeritus. Stanley, who came to First Baptist as an associate pastor in 1969 before being named