In late June, 36 Christian students gathered at a spacious white villa in Sukabumi in Indonesia’s West Java for a retreat organized by Indonesian Christian Youth Movement. Ranging from elementary to high school ages, they sang worship songs, listened to sermons, and played games. Suddenly, on the afternoon of June 27, a mob of about Read more…
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Even as a child, I had an interest in the divided church. Sunday mornings found my family in a United Methodist church, but on Sunday evenings my parents took me to a nearby charismatic church instead. We began the day with liturgy and the Eucharist and finished it, late into the night, speaking in tongues. Read more…
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Pastor at his local congregation. Evangelist to his neighborhood. Community board member. But first, Abebe Woldegiorgis was a witch doctor. Woldegiorgis hails from the rural outskirts of Bishoftu, a city one hour southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and grew up in his country’s historic Christian denomination, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Though many residentsfollowed Read more…
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New restrictions on campus speech in Texas have spurred a lawsuit from a coalition of student groups, including a Dallas ministry concerned about the impact on Bible studies, worship nights, and evangelism on campus. The Campus Protection Act bans First Amendment–protected speech or expressive conduct between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. and prohibits using amplified Read more…
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In the past 30 years, Robert Clements’ daily column, Bob’s Banter, has appeared in more than 60 newspapers and magazines, most of them in India but also in countries like the UK, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and the United Arab Emirates. His articles, which are translated into Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi, reach an estimated 6 million Read more…
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When students in my Old Testament courses contrast the allegedly messy world of the first testament with the allegedly simple, straightforward teachings of Jesus, I know for sure they haven’t read the New Testament lately. When we read the Gospels, not least Jesus’ parables, we discover him saying all sorts of bizarre, borderline offensive things. Read more…
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This is an article about penal substitutionary atonement, or PSA. I’d like to attempt the herculean feat of discussing PSA without slander, rancor, or resort to a straw man. I leave it to you, dear reader, to judge whether I succeed. Speaking of impossible tasks, I’m also going to avoid adjudicating the merits and demerits Read more…
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Here are edited excerpts of a conversation between Russell Moore and Mike Cosper on CT’s The Bulletin podcast. Mike Cosper: Look, his murder has really bothered me. If you’re a dad—I don’t care how you feel about Charlie Kirk—look back on the days of your life, the days of your marriage, when your kids were Read more…
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