It took the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights three years to produce its report on religious freedom and non-discrimination. With 27 pages, more than 1000 days of work, and 200-some additional pages of commentary, the document essentially amounts to this:…
Dallas seminary becomes 1st in U.S. to make course on child sex abuse a must for would-be clergy
Beginning this semester, all ministerial students have a new graduation requirement: They must take a one-hour course called Ministry Safe.
Religion in U.S. ‘worth more than Google and Apple combined’
Religion in the United States is worth $1.2 trillion a year, making it equivalent to the 15th largest national economy in the world, according to a study.
A new crop of D.C. churches has discovered the secret to appealing to millennials
In the past few years, there’s been a wave of new churches targeting the young professionals who have moved into Washington in droves. Over the past five years, churches all over the District — and all over the country — have discovered…
Clinton, Trump, or neither? 3 views on the 2016 presidential election
As most readers know, a not-for-profit publishing company like Christianity Today has to remain not-for-prophet when it comes to (prophetically) endorsing a presidential candidate. This year, however, we’re trying something completely different: advocacy pieces for each of the major party…
Teaching Calvin in California
In my history of Christianity course, we read a number of challenging writers. Each one I ask students to read with as much sympathy, charity and critical perspective as they can muster. But nothing outrages them — not the writings…
Uber and Amos: Economic justice in the gig economy
Taxi or Uber? It’s a question with moral implications that extend far beyond what kind of car you choose.
Mercy, the gospel and the urgency of criminal justice reform
There is much to learn about justice reform from Jesus’ exchange with the woman at the well. The first lesson is that those cycled through the criminal justice system need to be seen as more than criminals.
Brian McLaren wants Christians to be better
Asking why there is so little progressive Christianity in America is a bit like asking the question so famously posed at the start of the previous century:“Why is there no socialism in the United States?”