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I was born in Nairobi, Kenya. Shortly after, my family moved to England and settled in a leafy suburb near London.My elder brother and I went to a good school. In Indian families like ours, education was a status symbol and an avenue toward long-term success. Although the school wasn’t Christian, we sang hymns every morning, prayed before lunch, and prayed again before leaving for home. Every Christmas I took […]

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For 35 years, I was a skeptical atheist in a family of non-Christians. I occasionally encountered believers who shared their personal testimony, but I seldom found their stories compelling. My father’s second wife, for example, became a Mormon and subsequently raised six children in that faith, despite the fact that my father remained a committed atheist. My half-siblings also shared personal testimonies based on their experiences. Since the claims of Christ and […]

Ending many of his rallies with a churchlike ritual and casting his prosecutions as persecution, the former president is demanding — and receiving — new levels of devotion from Republicans.A rally for former President Donald J. Trump in July in Erie, Pa. At many of his recent rallies, Mr. Trump delivers a roughly 15-minute finale that evokes an evangelical altar call. Credit...Maddie McGarvey for The New York TimesSupported byBy Michael […]

By now, two years after the initial conflict, many Americans have largely forgotten about Ukraine. As often happens after a global crisis, we eventually become too distracted, irritated, or entertained by other news and media. Of course, there have been other more recent international conflicts as well, which also deserve our attention and prayers.In early 2022, Ukraine began receiving widespread global attention during Russia’s invasion, but much of the initial […]

Leonardo De Chirico is in an ongoing argument with the Italian government about the “intrinsic characteristics” of religious buildings.The evangelical pastor insists that Breccia di Roma (Breach of Rome), which is located in a simple storefront about a kilometer from the Colosseum, is a church. Christians meet there regularly to pray, praise God, and listen to the preaching of the Word. The national tax authority has noted, though, that the […]

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As the increasingly irreligious West decays and declines, God is showing himself to the East in unprecedented numbers.The West has effectively rejected God. After the past few hundred years of secular efforts to divorce Christianity from its foundations there, secularism has succeeded in Europe and is soon to do so in America as well. The average church attendance among the youth in European nations is 8.4%. In America, it is […]

I’m probably going to head to Israel next week.”When my friend and colleague Mike Cosper said this to me barely a month after Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli civilians, I feared for his life. I prayed every day for his protection. But I’m glad he made the trip.Cosper’s journey resulted in our cover story. He paints a vivid picture of the aftermath in the war-torn kibbutz of Kfar Aza. He goes […]