Harvard has had a very bad year. It began last summer with the Supreme Courts verdict in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which declared that the universitys admissions policies were unconstitutionally discriminatory—or in plain terms, racist. Then came October 7, when Hamas unilaterally broke a cease-fire to attack Israel, killing 1,200 and kidnapping some 250, with many of the...

　　Francis Collins, the former longtime head of the National Institutes of Health and founder of BioLogos, has seen deaths in his work as a physician and researcher. But some of those have been personal: He watched his brother-in-law die a slow and painful death from complications of hepatitis C, an often fatal disease that attacks the liver. Rick Boterf died...

　　Wycliffe Bible Translators building is 167,000 square feet of class-A office space, with windows looking out over palm trees, golf course grass, and a shimmering blue lake that appears to be a near-perfect circle. The headquarters is about 10 miles from the Orlando airport in the Lake Nona area, sitting on 272 lush acres that include wetlands filled with Florida...

　　“Are you ready to do your duty for Rome?” 　　From its first line, the most important scene in Gladiator, the winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2000, explores the citizen’s responsibility in a republic. This is a timeless subject; indeed, the scene can help us understand, 2,000 years after the film’s setting, what civic duty means in...

　　What to Do When You're Fearing the Worst 　　By Meg Bucher 　　“For the Lord your God is living among you. 　　He is a mighty savior. 　　He will take delight in you with gladness. 　　With his love, he will calm all your fears. 　　He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.” - Zephaniah 3:17 NLT 　　“I don’t think you need to...

　　Even the Little Things Can be Honoring 　　By: Anne Peterson 　　Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. -Romans 12:10 　　I wasn’t always honoring toward my husband. It’s just that we’re so different. I’ll be honest; I have been known to roll my eyes when he explains something to me. Not that he could see me...

　　Weekend, June 1, 2024 　　Things Yet to Come 　　Six days later Jesus took Peter and the two brothers, James and John, and led them up a high mountain to be alone. (Matthew 17:1 NLT) 　　Jesus felt that it was time for Peter, James, and John to experience a glimpse of His glory, a moment when they would see Him for...

　　As Indias monumental elections finally come to an end this week, all eyes are on the extent of the mandate that will be handed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party. Especially among the subcontinents estimated 28 million Christians, for whom the result will test whether religious freedom and secularism will be preserved in the worlds largest...

　　Donald Trumps historic felony conviction in New York on Thursday hasnt deterred his evangelical supporters. Instead, along with fellow Trump loyalists, they have directed their ire at the justice system that issued a guilty verdict against him. 　　People think this is kind of the end of America, Chad Connelly, CEO of Faith Wins, a conservative Christian organization, told CT. I...

　　Peter Chih-Ping Lin (林治平), who launched a Christian magazine for those outside the church that grew into a sprawling, eclectic ministry, died of pancreatic cancer on April 27 at the age of 86 in Taipei. With little financial support, in 1973, Lin founded what became Christian Cosmic Light Holistic Care Organization, which sought to reach non-Christians through art, academic research,...

　　It’s a well-known fact that historians generally don’t like historical fiction. Movies set in past periods of history, “based on real events” or not, generally put our teeth on edge. Such fictions are ordinarily filled with ridiculous anachronisms. The anachronisms are most obvious when mushy modern phrases from our therapeutic culture—urging us to share our feelings or hoping we are...

　　For much of the twentieth century, films about faith were either earnest epics such as The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Robe or syrupy depictions of self-effacing clergy as in The Bells of St. Mary’s and Boys Town. The end of the old production code in the late ’60s provided new opportunities not only for more challenging depictions of...