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American officials and supporters say Andrew Brunson has been “unjustly imprisoned” under false charges. Turkish prosecutors demanded life imprisonment for jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson in an official indictment presented to Izmir’s 2nd Criminal Court on Tuesday. Arrested without bail since October 2016, Brunson is accused of being “a member and executive” of the IslamicContinue reading “Turkey Wants to Keep American Pastor Behind Bars for Life”

Society’s moral resolve hinges on the interdependence of the sick and the well. Just a few months ago, Britain announced the appointment of a Minister of Loneliness. The post reflects a rising epidemic that’s unique to 21st-century Western society: Many of us are hyperconnected online but simultaneously disconnected from substantive community. We have dozens ofContinue reading “Why Suicide Is Everybody’s Business”

Missional leaders must cultivate biblically-shaped leadership and the gospel-structured mission. Eighteenth-century pioneer of missional theology, Nicolaus Zinzendorf, once quipped, “Preach the gospel, die and be forgotten.” Zinzendorf accurately describes the posture of the missional leader. We don’t need celebrities that dictate to us what our ministry should look like. We don’t need trends to whichContinue reading “The Focused Leader: Keeping the Mission as the Ultimate Goal”

The mind-boggling discoveries of computers and what we—and God?—still may never know. For Pi Day this year, chew on this: Does God know all the digits in pi? Or does he know the answer to the myriad of unresolved mathematical problems out there today? The great fifth-century African bishop Augustine of Hippo surely would haveContinue reading “Food for Thought: The Theological Life of Pi”

Fired Rex Tillerson was still shuffling strategy. Now experts are looking to Mike Pompeo to set the tone. Top advocates have spent much of President Donald Trump’s time in office waiting for his administration’s international religious freedom efforts to fall into place. With today’s firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, they’re left once againContinue reading “Will Trump’s New Secretary of State Prioritize Religious Freedom?”

Most think persecution is severe, but only half are very concerned or strongly support asylum and aid. The Colosseum in Rome was recently lit up in red the color of blood. “This is a symbol of the persecution of Christians in the entire world—those who suffer because of faith,” stated Alfredo Mantovano, president of AidContinue reading “US Catholics More Concerned About Climate Change Than Persecuted Christians”

Developing better systems to reflect the best in kingdom expansion Church planting is an important and broad topic. It seems that most people have an opinion on church planting—some have several opinions! If you want to see some excitement, ask a group of church planters or church leaders in general what an explosive church plantingContinue reading “Three Elements of An Explosive Church Planting Movement”

Can the spiritual dimensions of reality be probed by science? This past weekend, millions of moviegoers saw A Wrinkle in Time and joined a group of tessering travelers as they warped through higher dimensions in pursuit of the heroine’s missing father. The film is, of course, based on the classic Newbery Award–winning children’s novel writtenContinue reading “A Wrinkle in Heaven”

“Conservatives love my family-first message, but you have to pay for that message,” says researcher. Erica Komisar is a social worker and psychoanalyst who believes young children are faring worse than they were even 30 years ago. In her practice, “I was seeing an increase in children with mental disorders, being diagnosed earlier and medicatedContinue reading “Babies Need Their Moms. But Moms Need Paid Leave.”

Lin Zhao’s faith led her to embrace China’s Communist movement—then pay the ultimate price for opposing it. Nelson Mandela. Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Martin Luther King Jr. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. When we think of 20th-century political dissidents who were people of faith, these are the names that spring to mind. And for good reason: These men left anContinue reading “How Christian Faith Led a Single Woman to Defy Chairman Mao”