​How Catholic Universities Are Confronting Declining Birth Rates​

The declining birth rate across many parts of the world has become an issue that is leading educational institutions around the world to analyze its impact on enrollment. In the United States, some have closed their doors because they don’t have...

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​Trump Considers Strikes to Preempt Iran as Huckabee Points to 'Spiritual Battle' Against Evil​

After the first U.S. military strikes against Iran since July, the Trump administration is considering a new strategy that could make limited U.S. strikes a recurring part of the battle for the Strait of Hormuz. Floating a military strategy one U.S. official...

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​Wendell Berry, writer and farmer, was extolled by many as a modern-day prophet​

The Baltimore meeting hall was packed in 2013 when, at the annual American Academy of Religion conference, Wendell Berry received the Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. The Kentucky farmer, who wrote lyrical...

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​Iran Kills 33 Christian Ministers, Detains More Than 130 as Persecution Intensifies​

Iranian authorities have killed at least 33 Christian ministers and detained more than 130 others connected to an underground church network in recent months, according to Iran Alive Ministries. This Texas-based organization supports house...

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​Samaritan's Purse turns down $300M from State Department for humanitarian relief​

Just three weeks ago, the U.S. State Department announced it had a plan to provide health and humanitarian assistance around the world through a pledge of $2 billion to faith-based and community organizations. But now those plans have hit a snag....

​Dual Citizenship: What Does it Mean to be a Christian and a Citizen of the United States?​

One of my Facebook friends posted a rather bizarre photo a couple of years ago. He and his sons professed a fervent evangelical Christian faith, as well as a strong dedication to the “Tea Party” political ideology of limited government and low taxes....

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​Saying No to Trump and Yes to God: Understanding the Difference Between God and Mammon​

I grew up Pentecostal, the kind of Pentecostal that believed God could speak through dreams, tongues, and the occasional awkward silence between altar calls. We were the kind of church folks who believed in the Book of Acts like it just...

​Wendell Berry and The Way of Improvement Leads Home​

When I was writing The Way of Improvement Leads Home, my fellow historians would ask me about the “theory” that informed the book. I usually answered that the thinker who most influenced the book’s moral framework was Wendell Berry....

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​More Than Evolution Requires​

Back when I didn’t believe in God, I did a lot of church shopping. I was trying to figure out which denomination of atheism I could have faith in. There were so many to choose from! Marxists, Freudians, existentialists, the hard-core science types...

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​The Release of “Mere Complementarianism”​

I want to share with you a little bit about this project and why I hope that you’ll read it. In the last few decades, debates about gender have become louder, sharper, and more confusing, both in the culture and even, sadly, in the church. Many Christians...

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​When Odysseus Found Salvation in The Odyssey​

Two of the most moving scenes for me in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey had to do with… well… hold that thought. First, a quick detour through a Greek word; some thoughts on an unfortunate translation in the Bible; my opinion on a serious...

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​The battle over divine providence: So, is God part of the American story or not?​

The celebration of America’s semiquincentennial—yes that’s the Latin for 250th anniversary—is now in the history books. In terms of optics, it was a grand affair, with epic fireworks displays just about everywhere, tall ships in New York City, and..

​My mom handed me a ‘Health and Beauty for Women’ book from 1923. It’s oddly not terrible.​

I was walking out of my 80-year-old mother’s house the other day when she stopped me. “Wait, I found something I want to show you,” she said. She disappeared for a few seconds and emerged with a small, old book: Health and Beauty for Women...

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​What are the odds? Family learns of third set of twin grandbabies​

One set of twins in the family is a double dose of joy. Two sets are remarkable. But three? That's the unbelievable streak that shocked grandparents in Folsom, California, where a trio of twin pregnancy announcements drew a reaction that...

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