It's easy to say you love the church universal, the whole bride of Christ. But Scripture unmistakably calls us to love the ...
On April 30, 311 AD, the Roman Emperor Galerius issued what became known as the Edict of Serdica, which made the first formal ...
To celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States, President Trump has announced several religious ceremonies. This weekend is Shabbat 250, in honor of Jewish Heritage month, beginning Friday night ...
How do we translate the gospel for a culture without a common spiritual language? What does evangelism look like in a post-Christian world? Christians who want to share their faith often wrestle with ...
People find it hard to believe that Christianity had such an inauspicious beginning in A.D. 33 with the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth. He had only a handful of followers — many of them poor ...
It’s mid-October in San Francisco, and a crowd of 200 or so congregants—some seated in pews, others standing below cathedral windows at the back—bow their heads in prayer. Over cranberry-apple cosmos ...
Christianity is the world’s largest religion, with an estimated 2.4 billion followers, or nearly one-third of the world’s total population. But in Japan, Christians are a tiny minority. Unlike in ...
On this small island in rural Nagasaki, Japan’s Hidden Christians gather to worship what they call the Closet God.