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Court frees grief counselors charged under former Hindu kingdom’s new constitution. A court in Nepal has dropped a case against eight Christians, the first religious freedom dispute since the country's new constitution was implemented last year. The seven men and one woman had been charged with proselytizing after giving out a pamphlet about Jesus inContinue reading “Christians Win Nepal’s First Anti-Evangelism Case”

As it turns out, talking to ourselves may not be so crazy. Here’s a confession for you. I talk to myself. A lot. Yes, I do mean out loud. I have regular conversations with myself: at work, at home, in the car … everywhere! Sometimes my family overhears me and it solidifies their belief thatContinue reading “Four Consistent Conversations We Must Have with Ourselves”

Most Americans, including 4 in 10 evangelicals, want doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives. The American Medical Association has described physician-assisted suicide as a serious risk to society and “fundamentally incompatible with a physician’s role as healer.” Millions of Americans disagree. Two-thirds say it is morally acceptable for terminally ill patients toContinue reading “Opposition to Assisted Suicide Dies Out”

Tonya White Mountain lives out the Christian call to be a peacemaker. Assemblies of God pastor Tonya White Mountain regularly makes the nearly two-hour drive from her home on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation to Bismarck, North Dakota, the closest place to shop at Wal-Mart and get medical checkups. During a recent trip, a truckContinue reading “Interview: Why One Standing Rock Pastor Won’t Preach About the Pipeline”

Although caused by aliens, the breakdown in communication in Arrival feels all too familiar. Reader, I confess: I clicked “unfriend” last month. Several times. Understand, I wasn’t ending friendships. I was respecting them—by refusing to let Facebook’s limitations do them further harm. It troubled me to see conversations we might have enjoyed in person goContinue reading “Arrival’s Terrifying Vision of a Global “Unfriending””

Southeast Christian Church Teaching Pastor is the first in a new series As early as Acts 2, Luke wrote that Christians were devoted to, “the apostles’ teaching,” which has at least something to do with what we would call “biblical preaching” today. Many scholars believe that much of the New Testament came from sermons thatContinue reading “What is Biblical Preaching? A New Series, starting with Kyle Idleman”

What’s behind our timeless fascination with religious pilgrimage? Years ago, Thomas Friedman’s The Lexus and the Olive Tree contrasted two ways of being in the evolving Western world. One, epitomized by the “olive tree,” is rooted, in place, stable, stationary. The other, the “Lexus,” was the emerging vision of the modern individual: a life distinguishedContinue reading “A Journey as Old as Humanity Itself”

New report details when workers’ faith expression is protected and when it can get them fired. British officials are encouraging the country to put Christ back in Christmas—even in their workplaces. “There are a lot of myths out there when it comes to dealing with religion at work. I want to put the record straight:Continue reading “British Government Affirms Christmas at Work”

Louisville-based ministry shares the love of Jesus with women in the adult entertainment industry I had been loving and serving dancers in strip clubs for several years when my teammates and I decided to do something special. While we usually just did hair and makeup, on this particular night we decided we would give theContinue reading “Scarlet Hope”

How the New Testament offers a better, higher calling than the Declaration of Independence. An Anglican man rang me out of the blue the other day to ask if the New Testament teaches “equality.” “Not really,” I replied. “The New Testament mentions equality once or twice, but when it comes to social relationships, it isContinue reading “The Bible Never Says ‘All Men Are Created Equal’”