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How we inadvertently create a cult of personality around our preachers. Here is the “most effective” and terrible sermon illustration I’ve ever used: One day my wife and I were…

Analysis on recent survey results may provide Christians with some encouragement—and reproof. I got some terrific responses to my previous articlethat focused on how religious faith can lead to an…

CT’s 1958 interview provides some bearing on today's missions to the sun, Mars and beyond. It seems like so long ago that a moonshot was just a moonshot. Today, “moonshot”…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo explains to CT why the US State Department is hosting a second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week. This week, the US State Department…

At this week's second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, 30 survivors from all faiths were given a global platform in Washington DC. At this week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom,…

Denomination delays verdict on how Myungsung, the world’s largest Presbyterian church, passed its pulpit from father to son. The two-year saga embroiling the world’s largest Presbyterian church remained unresolved Tuesday,…

Barna’s rankings spur pastors in secularizing spots—in the Northeast and across the country—to continue working and praying for revival. Eight locales in the Northeast and New England, a region historically…

“The church needs to re-introduce itself as a place, as a possibility, and as a neighborhood impact, as opposed to a place people ‘attend’ or ‘go’.” Ed: One of the…

Jeffrey Epstein's case is disturbing—and in some ways it mirrors the abuse crisis in the church. Just last week, news surfaced of the arrest of financier Jeffrey Epstein for running…

A decade of analysis from Pew details what global faith leaders already know: From China to Europe, from the Middle East to the US, persecution is climbing. Ahead of a…