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(This month, I am taking a short break from my megachurch visits series.)Over at CT, global managing editor Morgan Lee has a new article with a curious problematic. It’s not Israel or Palestine or the 2024 election; no, it’s “Taylor Swift,” whom Lee laments, “can do whatever she wants.” Lee’s coverage of Swift’s latest, “The Tortured Poets Department” (TTPD), focuses attention on the singer’s (purportedly) lackluster songwriting therein. TTPD’s shortcomings […]

There’s good reason for the church to be wary of social media influencers—particularly those who speak to spiritual matters. We aren’t wrong to be disconcerted at the idea of Christians being led by online personalities who might be more charismatic than theologically sound or more creative than credible, especially when the influencers are disconnected from church discipleship and discipline themselves. Algorithms, monetization, and viral moments create endless temptations and adverse […]

Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.By Emma Fowle2024-05-21T15:19:00+01:00Recent trends suggests Christians are leaving behind more traditional expressions of church. Could God be doing something new? When my husband and I moved to Cornwall 20 years ago, we found our church before we found jobs or somewhere to live. We’ve been part of the same congregation ever since. Despite its many flaws, I am passionate about the local church, and […]

Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.By Emma Fowle2024-05-21T11:37:00+01:00When Wycombe Wanderers’ Jason McCarthy became a Christian, his family, fiancée and teammates thought he’d lost the plot. But thanks to a miraculous goal and a crazy dream, things soon changedI had an amazing childhood, filled with football. I went through the academy at Southampton Football Club and broke into the first team. Then I went on a couple of loan moves, before signing […]

Christians are supposed to be unpopular. They are supposed to be out of touch with contemporary society (whether that means first-century Palestine, early medieval Europe, 19th-century Africa or 21st-century China).Non-believers finding Christianity offensive or alienating is a feature, not a bug. If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first, Jesus says to the disciples. St Paul notes that the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, […]

|Last year I joined a group of Christian leaders, Black and white, on a tour of the National Museum of African American History and Culture located in Washington, DC.Even though I’ve read quite a bit about slavery and Jim Crow, I was still physically and emotionally disturbed by the visual depictions of the systemic and violent ways in which people of color were treated for centuries of American history. There […]

Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.By Bishop Dr Joe Aldred2024-05-17T08:44:00+01:00As a Black British Pentecostal Christian, Joe Aldred has never been in doubt about the power of the Holy Spirit to transform us from the inside out. It’s what allows us to be more than conquerors, he says Growing up, the relationship between my Christian Pentecostal faith and the Christian festival of Pentecost often struck me as quite strange.It was […]

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. […]