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There are two ways to assess the state of Christian faith in relation to culture. One is to look locally at your own immediate context, the other is to look at things globally. So if you live in the Global North,…

Public health expert Tyler VanderWeele and his Harvard team looked at more than a decade of developmental data from 12,000 children. This was a longitudinal study examining “social, physical, and mental tendencies…

Innovation is one of the least talked about issues within churches. We talk about the importance of evaluating current approaches in light of continued effectiveness and the strategy to adopt in adopting new…

The director of our mission partner in northern India made an unusual request when he visited the United States last summer. We wanted to interview him on camera, and he politely declined. He said it wasn't safe.…

The most popular site in 2021 was not Google, Amazon, Facebook or YouTube. It was TikTok. If you're unfamiliar with TikTok, it's a Chinese video-sharing platform similar to YouTube that allows users to post videos…

According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor, more Americans quit their jobs in April 2021 than in any other month on record. This record was then broken in July 2021, which was then broken in August. And then…

There is a new word that is being used as slang. Men who are "too nice" to women are called "simps". It comes from the word silly. Initially, it was used to make fun of men who flattered women into sleeping with…

I have long argued that the most important religious trend of our time is the rise of no. As I wrote in my book The rise of the nuns, the “nones” are those with no religious affiliation. When asked about their…

It's time to recap the year that has been. And what a year it was. There are several ways to do this, many of which are interesting. You can look at a year in terms of notable deaths, viral events, political…

Most people have seen one or more versions of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. By far, this is one of my favorite Christmas tales: the story of Ebenezer Scrooge having his consciousness awakened by the appearance…

In 1897, Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, an assistant coroner on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was questioned by his then eight-year-old daughter, Virginia, if Santa Claus really existed. He suggested that she write The…

It's the season to knock out all your Christmas shopping as the countdown to Christmas is officially on. Whether you're more of a crowd-fighting Black Friday Christmas shopper or a Cyber ​​Monday shopper sitting on…

Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2010, fills the current cycle of generational news. Well it should. As I wrote in Meet Generation Z: " will come to characterize the new reality of a post-Christian world. As…

Never before have "habits of the mind" been so important. As Winston Churchill foresightedly stated in his address to Harvard University in 1943: “The empires of the future will be empires of the spirit. Oxford…

Editor's Note: This blog is a favorite of the Church & Culture team and has become a Thanksgiving tradition. Enjoy it and Happy Thanksgiving! The barracks where Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsy were held…

Richard Dawkins calls the God of the Bible a “moral monster”. For example, Dawkins calls God's command to Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac as "shameful" and amounting to "child abuse and intimidation." He…

This article is the first from one of my new blogs: Take this cup: how God turns suffering into glory and Joy. I will rely heavily on my book of the same title, which is the result of 30 years of meditating on what the Bible says about…

* Editor's note: This is the second in a five-part series. Make sure you read the first installment here. The term "fundamentalist" or "fundamentalism" was probably first coined by Curtis Lee Laws in the Baptist…

Previously, everything churches did digitally was designed to serve the physical, meaning in-person, physical events and activities. The digital has been used to market, give information or offer a record for the…

One of the core values ​​of the church that I have the privilege of leading is that loving relationships should permeate all aspects of church life. As Jesus himself said: "Love one another. Just as I loved you,…

In March 2020, almost every church on the planet rushed to not only be online, but also to create as much online presence as possible and to encourage all online engagement. You would think the vast majority of…

“I don't know what to pray for. I'm not sure how to pray right now. I'm not even sure I want to pray, but I know I need to. I'm just a mess. Have you ever felt this? We all have. Whether we are faced with the…

In the late 90s, Joshua Harris burst onto the Christian scene with a book titled I kissed the meeting goodbye, a treatise on courtship and courtship. The book sold millions and made him, in one observer's words, an…

Jim Collins - one of the foremost thinkers on all things business, organization, and leadership - has suggested that to really get to the heart of your purpose, you should ask at least five sequential "why"…

Photo credit: ©Juan Pablo Rodriguez/Unsplash I recently listened to the first episode of Christianity today podcast about the disappearance of Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill Church. It was excellent and well…

If you've spent any time in the market, you know what a SWOT analysis is. It's when you look at the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats a business faces in its efforts to find and experience growth.…

According to several polls and surveys, there is a group that is preventing current vaccines from winning over COVID-19: … White evangelical Christians. Currently, around 41 million people reside in the United…

Yesterday was Ash Wednesday, the start of the 40 days of Lent. For reasons unknown to us, the span of 40 - whether 40 days or 40 years - has been significant throughout biblical history: The great flood lasted…