Born Free is a new book exploring how God can be experienced in the midst of life's demands. Author Katharine Hill, a former solicitor, offers guidance on how we can achieve stillness and create 'margin' for God every day. Christian Today spoke with Katharine to hear about what inspired her to write the book and how we can meet God in the busyness of life.
A well known Swahili proverbs observes, "when elephants fight, the grass suffers". It is a direct analogy to the human condition when our leaders enter into geopolitical conflict and the ordinary people suffer the most. It can seem overwhelming but here are some basic things followers of Jesus can do to help minimize the damage.
The political positioning of new regimes is matching an ideology that has been forming for some time—Dark Enlightenment. We are watching a new world order emerge that will cause great suffering. As the performance of Bach's St Matthew's Passion unfolded, it resonated deeply with the times we find ourselves in.
Among many other things, Easter is an opportunity to reflect on Jesus' relationship to political power. Modern readers of the Gospels and Epistles too easily miss the political significance of Jesus' death and resurrection. Far from leaning into and leveraging political and imperial power, Jesus and his followers are called to righteously and justly subvert it for God's glory alone.
We are being tempted afresh to give our allegiance to men who wield great power and wealth in the hope that we will benefit from their rule over us. This is a temptation as old as humanity. The true follower of Christ should give no allegiance to anyone but Jesus.
Doctors Without Borders is reporting a surge in sexual violence impacting migrants traveling from Latin America to the United States as concerns about securing the southern border continue to loom large in American politics.
TobyMac won the Pop/Contemporary Album of the Year during the 54th annual Gospel Music Association Dove Awards for his album Life After Death, just days ahead of the fourth anniversary of his son's sudden death.
A sex trafficking survivor and a man who was abused while working in the porn industry shared their stories during a recent congressional briefing discussing policy solutions to prevent online sexual exploitation.
Actor Matthew Perry, famously known for his role as Chandler Bing in the hit NBC sitcom "Friends," died in his Los Angeles-area home at the age of 54 on Saturday, and since the news of his death, the actor's comments about God and the afterlife have resurfaced.
An award-winning Christian hybrid school in Germany is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights after the government shut it down for allegedly violating the state's "educational mandate."
The Swiss elections brought an overall slide to the right. The clear winner is the SVP (Swiss People's Party), which won nine additional seats in the National Council. The EVP (Evangelical People's Party) and the EDU (Federal Democratic Union), which practice politics on the basis of the Gospel, are now represented by two politicians each.
A Christian charged under India’s anti-conversion law after Hindu nationalists attacked a church is seeking anticipatory bail from the Supreme Court of India.
