Essays
News
Inside the Crowded Hospital Full of Congo’s Rape Victims
Dr. Denis Mukwege, a local pastor and surgeon, is a tireless advocate for women and children suffering through war.
Hear Our Prayer Amid Violence
We ask God to bring justice in Congo and around the world.
What Do We Want from Dietrich Bonhoeffer?
A former tour guide at Bonhoeffer’s historic house wrestles with the implications of mythologizing his story for our own ends.
The Christian Schools That Cried Wolf
Critics of religious academies compare modern parental concerns over sexual ethics to mid-century racism. But the echo they hear is not about education.
Plein Air Prayer
An artist wrestles with anxieties and faith in young adulthood.
Setting Our Scopes on Things Above
A century after the infamous trial, evangelicals can unbundle faith from culture wars and recover a wiser witness.
How the Nicene Creed Became Cool Again
More and more churches are turning to ancient words of faith to anchor modern worship.
A Splintered Generation
Evangelicalism’s fracturing is chronic, but not terminal. Here’s how we can move forward.
Public Theology Project
The Problem of Panic
Where Peter once stood in the place of Pan, we can hear the voice that changes everything.
Review
Has Faith Gone Out of Fashion?
A symposium on Christian Smith’s book Why Religion Went Obsolete.
Review
The What and the Why of Religious Decline
One is relatively simple to map out. The other is much harder to capture.
Review
Young Nones Might Not Hate Religion. But They Don’t Like the Vibes.
How Christian Smith’s concept of a “Millennial Zeitgeist” helps explain their recent retreat from faith.
Review
The Upside to Religious Obsolescence
Why a post-Christian generation might be the ripest for revival.
The Key Lesson of My Book: Don’t Underestimate ‘Deep Culture’
Christian Smith responds to CT’s reviews of Why Religion Went Obsolete.
News
Measuring the Good Life
New global data shows what makes for a flourishing life. It isn’t what we think.
Prologues
Right-Size Your Fear
A note from CT’s president in our May/June issue.
News
Former VP Mike Pence’s Conversation with Russell Moore
They discussed global tensions, prayer for those in authority, and Mrs. Pence’s frosty reception of President Trump.
Qualms & Proverbs
Should I Talk to My Kids’ School About the Pledge of Allegiance?
CT advice columnists also weigh in on cultivating lifelong friendships and ending a dating relationship in a godly way.
Love Bids Our Anxious Fears Subside
A note from CT’s editorial director for print in our May/June issue.
Testimony
The Gospel Comes for a Neo-Nazi
A couple’s weekly dinner invitations helped transform me from an embittered skinhead to a senior pastor.
Backstories
Stories from the ‘Sandwich Generation’
Readers relate to Jen Wilkin’s article from January/February about the seasons of life.