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When my grandfather died, a portrait of Martin Luther King Jr. was hanging over his deathbed. His name was Bishop Thomas Lee Cooper, and he was part of the Black church’s now-fading civil rights generation, which King defined.It’s no great mystery why he and millions of other Americans held King in such high regard. This confessing Christian leader literally sacrificed his life to exemplify love of neighbor. His prophetic dream […]

|It’s not news that modern American Christians are deeply divided over politics—to the point that it may seem we have more in common with people who share our political beliefs than with our siblings in the faith. That division raises the question: If we’re all reading the same Bible, how do we end up with such conflicting and conflict-prone politics? Is our political engagement actually shaped by Scripture?Preston Sprinkle’s new […]

|I’ll begin with a confession: I was once very skeptical of John Mark Comer.From afar, he seemed like one more polished celebrity pastor turned speaker turned writer, with slick content designed to evoke the Rob Bell aesthetic of yore—and for that reason, to annoy people like me. By “people like me,” most charitably, I mean bookish believers and teachers concerned with orthodoxy. Less charitably, I mean snobs with too many […]

Greg and Amy explain why people have different interpretations of their near-death experiences and how near-death experiences can support biblical views on the soul and the afterlife.Question: Should Christians be concerned by how often near-death experiences (NDE’s) don’t seem to correspond or line up with much of what we are taught, theologically speaking, about the afterlife, God, Heaven, Hell, etc.? Does it call into question the Bible’s veracity? Why or […]

Read our research on: TikTok | Podcasts | Election 2024Read our research on: TikTok | Podcasts | Election 2024There is a range of estimates for the number of Christians in China, partly because different researchers use varying sources and methods, and partly because some analyses make adjustments to account for limitations in survey and government data.53 One perspective is provided by responses to the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) question […]

Greg explains how he narrowed down the many worldviews and “gods” in existence to Christianity and the God of the Bible.Question: In determining Christ is the one true God, how many others did you rule out?Greg: Well, first of all, there’s not many others to choose from, unless you want to take all these different pantheons. What I don’t think is required—there are a number of people who have actually […]

By Tyler Been Part of the process toward being ordained in the Episcopal church is clinical pastoral education (CPE). I have long thought it would be profitable for clergy who have recently gone through CPE to reflect on their experience and put it in writing. Every experience of CPE is particular, and so it is difficult to offer a far-reaching general narrative about it. However, my suspicion is that with the […]

The guts of the house spill through its blown-out windows like entrails from a sacrificed animal. The resident of this house in Kfar Aza, Israel, died during the attacks that tore it to pieces on October 7, 2023. The debris of his life—books, board games, furniture, lamps, clothes, pillows—pour out onto the front yard where they are now being soaked by the rain.I’m standing on the porch, making sure my […]

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.Glen Scrivener and Andrew Wilson, authors of "The Air We Breathe" and "Remaking the World," explore the origins of "post-Christianity" in the […]