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Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.By Stephen McAlpine2024-02-19T15:51:00+00:00The tide is turning on belief in God. There’s a growing interest in the Christian message, says Stephen McAlpineSource: Cavan Images / Alamy Stock Photo“I want you to meet Claire,” my friend Ollie said to me at our annual church network celebration.“She’s just become a Christian.”A newbie! A recent convert! I was in! In this day and age, in which the tide of Christianity is […]

Help keep Salon independentIn my own personal life, I have an aversion to accepting advice and even to human touch. I react in similar ways to both of these expressions. If someone touches my arm, intending only kindness, I tend to scratch it off, as was observed by a past partner.  If someone pushes their advice into my life, I often do the same: Scratch it off. Another friend once […]

By using sojo.net you agree to our Privacy Policy By using sojo.net you agree to our Privacy Policy This interview is part of The Reconstruct, a weekly newsletter from Sojourners. In a world where so much needs to change, Mitchell Atencio and Josiah R. Daniels interview people who have faith in a new future and are working toward repair. Subscribe here. Was Robert E. Lee, the infamous confederate general who went […]

|On February 8, 2023, a routine 50-minute chapel at Asbury University turned into a 16-day event that captured attention around the world.I streamed the service from my office that morning. After a message from the speaker, a student gospel choir closed in song. I left my computer and proceeded to my next meeting. Later, as I was preparing for lunch, my wife texted me that some students were still praying […]

I had been standing in line for more than an hour, waiting to meet a woman whose daughter, my son’s girlfriend, had just died in a car crash.As I waited, I took a deep breath to keep my emotions in check. Fate had overwhelmed us. My career in finance had just tanked because I was fired as a whistleblower. We were drastically cutting spending and in danger of losing our […]

|If you’re a Christian for long enough, you’ll notice that something sad starts to happen. A lot of the people who started the journey with you end up walking away.They leave for various reasons and go out different doors. Some leave loudly, announcing that they no longer believe in God. Others drift away without so much as a whisper.I wrote my first book on 20-somethings who shed their Christian identity. […]

Last week in Tehran, thousands rallied to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Islamic revolution that established Iran’s modern theocracy. Last October in London, 130 Iranian Christians gathered to worship and pray, and celebrated a quiet decision to establish an evangelical alliance.Time will tell which gathering was more consequential.In 1979, one month after the fall of the shah, 98 percent of Iranian citizens voted to approve a constitution installing an […]

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here.A friend and I were talking once about the first concerts we ever attended. His was Van Halen; mine was Amy Grant.“Okay, second concert?” he asked.Him: Mötley Crüe. Me: Petra.After a minute or two of silence, he said, “You realize we would have hated each other in middle school, don’t you?”One of us was part of a sheltered subculture quickly passing […]

This is an excerpt from A Quiet Mind to Suffer With, which was the winner in the Christian Living/Spiritual Formation category of CT’s 2024 Book Awards.I went to the hospital because the thoughts wounded my heart and terrified my body and because they would not end. The John I met in my thoughts was bizarre and unforgivable. I saw myself doing things in my thoughts that could not be defended […]