Religion
When I think of recent feuds, musicians like Drake and Kendrick Lamar or athletes like Kobe and Shaq come to mind. I’m surprised by how hot the emotions get ...
In this episode of TGC Podcast, Kendra Dahl, Andrew Wilson, and Glen Scrivener explore the incarnation’s richness and the unique opportunities for evangelism...
There’s a vault under a mountain above the Arctic Circle. It’s intentionally remote and cold, to prevent its contents from being damaged by war or disaster, ...
College life is finally over. You and your partner have started attending a new church. You love it there. The preacher opens the Bible every week. He walks ...
Tim Keller encouraged young ministers to to give their congregations the opportunity to ask questions publicly. I implemented that practice early on in my mi...
I was raised in a family that loved Christmas. Every December after school ended, my mom took me and my little brother to a small town in west Tennessee to s...
In this lecture, Don Carson teaches mainly from Ezekiel 16, which describes Jerusalem’s spiritual adultery and compares the city to an ungrateful prostitute ...
Are you struggling to balance your faith with the challenges of mental health? As Muslims, we face unique questions when it comes to well-being: How can we m...
Report recommends monks not be allowed to give pastoral advise or pose for selfiesMonk abused children for decades ‘in plain sight’, review says An abbey on ...
Since 2008, when I began compiling an annual list of important theology stories, Christianity has been receding across the West. And while many years include...
The new December 2024 issue of Themelios has 234 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web v...
One of my favorite songs is “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears. While the song represents what’s best about ’80s music, it also gets at a...
Thaddeus Kotik groomed, raped and sexually assaulted boys and girls on Caldey Island despite repeated complaintsA monk was able to abuse children for four de...
At the beginning of this decade, the entire Western world saw an existential intermission unknown in living memory. Like the wind and waves at Jesus’s rebuke...
Have you noticed the subtle shift in how congregations seek spiritual guidance? Where congregants once began with “My grandmother always said . . .” they now...
Suffering. How can one small word hold so much complexity? It can elicit: fear, dread, anxiety, bitterness, anger, and panic. It can also stir up: courage, s...
An elderly priest’s guilty plea exposes the church’s history of shielding predators in its midst for decadesIn the case of serial child molester and retired ...
I’ve always dreaded cancer. When I’d drive past cancer clinics, I’d pray for the people inside.
That dread became more personal four months ago. When I woke...
As period epics go, Gladiator II is vintage Ridley Scott: strong on spectacle and style but only loosely tethered to historical accuracy. From Napoleon (2023...
The veteran actor’s pleasurably zealous turn could be given twice as much screen time in what feels like a wade through dull dramatisations of bits of script...
The archbishop of Banterbury could have used his speech to express remorse to victims of abuse. But then there wouldn’t have been any room for lolzI imagine ...
