2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (640+ words) In'the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln'said'America was "conceived in liberty." Today we might call that our country's unique selling proposition. While other nations emphasized biological unity, America in the 20th century finally became a liberty theme park where people of all skin…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago  (523+ words) This piece was adapted from CT's books newsletter. Subscribe'here. Lisa Victoria Fields (Author) Fields guides readers through a process of self-reflection, grief, and healing with compassion and theological precision. She invites readers to consider how hero worship hurts everyone, writing,…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago  (987+ words) Last month, a German soccer fan with the username @Freddy LA7 landed in Atlanta with 11, 000 X followers and a six-week itinerary built around one goal: to follow Germany's team through the World Cup. Six weeks later, he's set to leave America…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago  (415+ words) The U. S Supreme Court is seen on June 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. The final day of the Supreme Court's term is usually reserved for some of its most contentious, high-profile cases. This year was no exception, with the court handing down three…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (609+ words) I've been writing about issues of poverty for four decades. My brief period of television presence came in the 1990s as the sower of "compassionate conservatism," a plant that sprang up quickly only to have a thorn-choked death in the early…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1209+ words) A priest conducts a blessing ceremony at Mbiyo Cemetery for an orphan who died from Ebola in Bunia on June 19, 2026. Denis Dalanga, founder of Minist're Chr'tien des Familles Church, a network of churches largely in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1071+ words) A new book from Luke Burgis is unavoidably incomplete, but it bears witness with the calm confidence of Christian faith. After romance novels, there may be no genre of writing more pilloried yet beloved than self-help. Society turned sour and…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (336+ words) Fractures of our society are multisensory experiences. We can see them in our cities and neighborhoods. We can feel them when banter turns to controversial topics. These moments of fracture can make us feel as if we're blind in a…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (424+ words) An editorial note from our July/August issue. Living in California, I don't think about earthquakes as much as people might imagine. Yes, the San Andreas Fault is 746 miles long and could be the site of the next "big one,…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (1790+ words) In the past seven years, Chinese house church leaders Owen Jiao and Ella Jiang have sought to provide their children with a Christian education, a difficult journey that caused them to run afoul of the Chinese government, ostracized them from…...