Review
The Lies—and Truths—That Keep Some Black People Out of Church
A California pastor’s book confronts the painful parts of Christian history but points to the healing power of the gospel.
News
Sudan’s Civil War Destroyed Hospitals and Churches
Local doctors and Christians are trying to rebuild lives in the capital city.
Thrifting to the Glory of God
Shopping secondhand and donating our own items echoes Jesus’ renewal of discarded lives.
‘No-Kids Zones’ Abound in South Korea. But Kids Aren’t Pests.
In a country with one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, children are seen as a nuisance. But they are a blessing that can pierce the idols of efficiency.
News
Iran Tensions Threaten Kenya’s Largest Export Industry: Tea
Christian farmers struggle to avoid bankruptcy.
Q&A: Douglas McKelvey on Gen Z’s Lack of Rites of Passage
The Rabbit Room’s newest prayer book urges readers to join God’s mission in young adulthood.
Nominations Are Open for the Christianity Today Book Awards
Instructions for authors and publishers.
Behind the Story
Why We Retracted a Report About Violence in Afghanistan
A note from CT’s editorial director for news about our reporting on an attack on a house church.
Public Theology Project
What Social Media Addiction Tells Us About Heaven and Hell
The infinite scroll is a counterfeit paradise, a parody of the coming world beyond “all that we ask or think.”
News
Floods Scatter Christian Communities in Africa
A pastor in Kenya struggles to rebuild a church destroyed by erratic weather.
News
Good Lungs and Lung Cancer
A tribute to Karl Zinsmeister, a Bush administration adviser who was a faithful Christian and the most interesting man I knew.
News
Anxious Chinese Young People are Turning to Fortunetelling
Even in churches, youth group members are asking about star signs. Pastors are pushing back and seeking openings.
Join a Church Before It’s an Emergency
With health care, we understand the need to plan for pain, even while we’re well. Spiritual care requires planning too.
Public Theology Project
Why I Don’t Debate Atheists
We need apologetics, but what we need more is genuine confidence in the Word we carry.
Review
We Don’t Need Resilience. We Need Resurrection.
As Tish Harrison Warren’s new book explores, springing back to strength after disaster isn’t the picture offered by Scripture.
Qualms & Proverbs
My Church Makes Everyone Take Nursery Shifts. Can I Object?
CT advice columnists also weigh in on a new deliverance ministry and inviting friends to church.
Pornography Has Always Been a Moral Blight
A look back at evangelical prescience concerning a “moral sickness.”
Enduring All Things for the Gospel
Two centuries ago in Burma, Adoniram Judson modeled evangelistic zeal and missionary resilience.
Can the City of Steel Rise Again?
Gary, Indiana, has struggled for decades. A coalition of Christians is working to bring it back to life.
Men Should Bear the Brunt of Contraception
Sterilization should never be done carelessly, and it should be the man’s burden.
What the Awkwardness of Sterilization Tells Us
Our instinctive discomfort reveals something about the unnaturalness of these procedures.
Christians Need Clearer Thinking About Sterilization
The wide and easy acceptance of vasectomies shows the weakness of our moral and biblical reasoning.
Testimony
I Sold My Body and Couldn’t Quit Heroin. But God Pursued Me.
Some faithful Christian women visited the dressing room at my strip club and showed me the love of Christ.
Evangelicals Debate Sterilization
Vasectomies and tube tying are more common among evangelicals than many realize. Do they have biblical warrant?
Faith Is Not a Sprint
A letter from CT’s president & CEO in our May/June issue.
To Grow Resilient Kids, Don’t Take Away Struggle
A Q&A with Tish Harrison Warren on resilience, raising children, and technology.
We Need More Than Grit
A note from our editorial director for features in our May/June issue.
Men Who Didn’t Get the Message
Amid pressure to worship Darwinism, these are three stories of resilient refusal.
We Need More Than Bible Trivia
Responses to our January/February issue.