The passage of President Lyndon Johnson’s landmark civil rights bill did not end Black Americans’ struggle for civil rights. In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. led a march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, to demand the right to vote. CT’s…
More turnover at Christianity Today
In a further sign of change at Christianity Today, one of the magazine’s best-known writers and editors has resigned, saying he has “significant disagreements with the new leadership, both practical and philosophical.” Senior News Editor Daniel Silliman posted news of…
The nondenominationalizing of American Christianity
Joel Osteen is an ecclesiastical phenomenon, an American, evangelical, charismatic, postmodern, megachurch, media savvy, health/wealth/motivational speaker, gospel-preacher phenomenon. A 59-year-old who doesn’t look it, Osteen seems made for the media — razor thin, self-effacing, pragmatic and guileless to a fault,…