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I’m tired of Christianity’s bad image.I’m tired of Trump and the blindness of MAGA Christians who connect faith with Making America Great.I’m tired of evangelical Christian Nationalists for their insistence that the US will be “blessed” for supporting Israel, even amid Palestinian genocide. (Note that support for Israel as a nation and Netanyahu is different from supporting Jewish people and Jewish faith.)Let’s calmly agree: America is not a Christian nation. […]

In the law, there is a concept of interpretation where an individual law can be used either as a sword or as a shield. A law is used as a sword when it is weaponized, used to hurt people or denigrate the law itself. Law is used as a shield when it is employed to help people, protect them or fortify the integrity of the law in general. We choose […]

|I felt a growing knot of dread and distrust in my belly.Beside me, my friend, our church’s associate pastor, spoke low into her cellphone as our taxi whizzed past Seoul’s Han River. Swift waters flowed between green manicured banks. On the other end of the line, I overheard an angry voice describing the latest allegations of sin by our head pastor.As I eavesdropped, I didn’t know about the cascade of […]

In my last column, I wrote that we (the United States) are becoming less religious. It prompted a good deal of discussion and most of it was civil. That is one of the goals I have for this column: civil discussion about important issues.I’m following up that article with this one which will address the question of “Why.” Why are people leaving their religious faith and traditions behind? It is […]

Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.2024-01-31T15:05:00+00:00Eight Christians pay tribute to the thinkers who have most influenced themI was 18 years old and serving children and teens in New Jersey when someone gave me Oswald Chambers’ autobiography Abandoned to God (Barbour & Co Inc). Tens of thousands of people use his daily readings, My Utmost for His Highest (Discovery House) but, for me, the starting place was his story. […]

Good Friday reminds us of the ephemerality of human power.Nearly 15 years ago, I had the chance to ask Christopher Hitchens, one of the world’s most prominent critics of religion, a simple question: “What do you think is the greatest contribution of Christianity, either writ large in terms of society or writ small in terms of individual lives?”To which Hitchens, an atheist who grew up as a nominal Christian, replied, […]

Every Sunday afternoon, my daughter and I join a Zoom call with her friend and her friend’s mom, who live a few hours away—for a special time we’ve come to call “God Talk.”My 17-year-old daughter, Penny, and her 18-year-old friend, Rachel, both have Down syndrome. A while back, Rachel noticed us praying before meals and asked if she could join us. This led to a few conversations about what it […]

The world is a confusing place right now. We believe that faithful proclamation of the gospel is what our hostile and disoriented world needs. Do you believe that too? Help TGC bring biblical wisdom to the confusing issues across the world by making a gift to our international work.At the inaugural Coram Deo Pastors Conference, held at Christ Covenant Church in Matthew, NC (March 12–14, 2024), I led a panel […]

INTRODUCTORY OFFER: 50% OFF FOR 3 MONTHS Learn more → Western civilisation has not succeeded because its liberal and secular principles are Christian; it has succeeded because Western Christians have accepted its liberal and secular values.If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him […]