Ideas

Ageism persists in majority-Asian churches. But Scripture exhorts us to transform how we speak and act toward young pastors and leaders.

Now that I’m a stay-at-home mom, success looks different than it once did—and, like the disciples, I realize I’ve been asking the wrong questions.

My ambition and eagerness for recognition were apparent from childhood. Is that sin?

Isaiah Berlin’s intellectual metaphors shed light on church history—and my own theological trajectory.

The Republican senator from Kentucky spoke with CT about his goals and motives in recent controversies in Washington and the import of the rule of law.

Social disadvantages are real. But both personally and corporately, we must honestly confront the ways in which we’ve injured ourselves.

Most churches did nothing as Japanese Americans faced mass incarceration during World War II. We must do better for immigrant communities today.

Government support helps. But the Black church shows good parenting requires the nourishment that flows from intentional congregations.

In a culture that prizes academic achievement, prayers for our kids can sound like shallow negotiations with God.

Even if a pronatalist proposal to honor mothers in the halls of power is well-intended, it’s missing the point.

Making Christianity great again by means of political control is tempting. That didn’t work in my country.

Responsible, achievable, biblically inspired policy is not just morally better than extremist political tactics. It’s also a strategic advantage.

Monetizing child-rearing online is never a godly option. But maybe it’s more than an influencer problem.

A note from CT’s editorial director for print in our May/June issue.

A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends.