Christians throughout the centuries have used the word “cruciform” (literally “cross-shaped”) to describe a life patterned after Jesus’s self-giving love. A cruciform faith is one shaped by the self-giving love of Jesus revealed on the cross. It embodies a way of...

  There are few things more radical than believing that the living God speaks: still, now, through words on a page. Compared with the views of our age, it's an astonishing conviction to believe that these words in Scripture, ancient yet alive, can pierce the noise of...

  There are nights when faith feels like silence. When prayer echoes into absence. When words once bright with certainty now taste like ash. It’s tempting to think something has gone terribly wrong; that doubt is failure, that questioning means betrayal. Yet the...

  There’s a migration unfolding across Western Christianity. You can hear it in the discussions on podcasts, the honesty of social media posts, the long pauses in once-familiar prayers. They call it deconstruction: a word that sounds like demolition but often hides...

  Words create worlds. From the first breath of creation, when divine speech summoned light from the void, to the prayers of the weary and the fiery declarations of the prophets, human history has been shaped by speech.[1] Words carry spirit. They form, reveal, and...

  The masculinity movement is now an entire industry with books, seminars, and speakers. The movement has grown up around notions of “biblical manhood,” but in reality, it reinforces worldly ideas of masculinity and femininity. A whole generation of boys and men today...

  The language of vengeance has become fluent in our time. It fills our feeds, our politics, our conversations. It thrives in the chants of rallies, the venom of comment threads, and the conversations of resentment at family tables. Its grammar is simple: They hurt...

  The air feels charged with anger. Outrage spreads like fire through our feeds. Families split across political lines, friends grow suspicious, neighbors draw the curtains. In many Western nations, democracy itself groans under the weight of distrust, misinformation,...

  Righteous anger rises in the streets as protesters chant for justice. In the United States, Black Lives Matter rallies cry out against systemic racism. In Australia, voices lift for First Nations dignity and reconciliation. The church professes that it should be “no...

  This week, I did a radio interview on ten global shifts in Christian mission. Here’s the transcript. Introduction Host: Hello and welcome! Today, we’re exploring the changes worldwide in Christian mission: the new directions and trends shaping how the church engages...

  Some voices today insist that slavery was a long-ago blight with little bearing on our present, even suggesting its impacts are exaggerated. They want us to stop talking about slavery so much and focus on the pleasant parts of our national or collective history....