A new Lifeway study found that Latino evangelicals in the US are reaching the unchurched and drawing in converts despite funding shortfalls, widespread community fear, and other challenges caused by the federal government’s immigration crackdown.

As antisemitic violence rises around the world, rabbi Josh Stanton says it is imperative that Christians respond in solidarity with their Jewish neighbors.

Throughout his career, Jubilant Sykes was open about his Christian faith and about his belief that his performances—whether explicitly sacred or not—were all a form of worship. The acclaimed gospel vocalist was killed on December 8.

Exclusive perks may be well-intended business decisions, but Christian gatherings shouldn’t reinforce economic hierarchy. Jazer Willis suggests an alternative to traditional VIP tickets:

The safe and warm manger scene on your living room table might be keeping you from properly understanding Christmas, argues @drmoore.bsky.social. First-century Bethlehem is not an escape from all the political chaos. It’s the epicenter.

“Debunking alone won’t stop conspiracy theories. We have to out-story them,” writes Luke Simon. “Fortunately, Christians have been doing that for millennia.”

“Instead of talking about God as Father, we’ve started to see God as good ol’ Dad.” But, Kirsten Sanders argues, “by changing terms away from father, we are trying to do public relations for faith.”

Indian Christmas traditions are delectable--and also inspiring. Read how Christian believers open their homes to people of other faiths amid rising persecution @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/12/indi...

As the year draws to a close, @drmoore.bsky.social shares his favorite books of 2025.⁠ ⁠ His picks include titles from ⁠Wendell Berry, Nicholas Carr, Stephen King, Jonathan Rauch, and others.

Hong Kong’s worst fire in decades claimed more than 150 lives. Amid the grief, local churches have provided shelter and aid even as some church members mourn their own losses in the blaze.

How do Bible verses talking about prayer as incense shape and inform our understanding of this spiritual practice? Prayer is "a sacred entreaty to God that rises toward him with the fullness of what we carry," Bohye Kim writes @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/pray...

As we begin Advent, here's a piece I wrote a few years ago @christianitytoday.com on popular misconceptions about this season that Majority World Christians often encounter: www.christianitytoday.com/2022/11/adve...

Amid declining support among media-influenced young evangelicals, the Israeli government hired a San Diego–based PR firm to launch a marketing campaign aimed at Christians in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. CT’s Israel correspondent investigates:

The story about AI-gen Solomon Ray has so much more than industry news. There's REAL Solomon Ray (also a Christian musician), a Jan. 6-adjacent hip-hop artist, Forrest Frank, and a conversation about what Christian music is for. @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/solo...

British-born Canadian evangelical Jim Houston turns 103 today. For this @christianitytoday.com story, I got to ask him questions like: What will you say to Jesus when you get to meet him? What do you want to share with CT readers? www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/jim-...

Planned to open to the public in 2028, The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer—a 168-foot-tall architectural landmark—is expected to be one of the largest Christian monuments in England, if not the world.

The Christianity Today Board of Directors has unanimously elected Dr. Nicole Massie Martin as its next President and CEO. Read more: chrst.today/3LLtTER

Since the war in Sudan began, fighting has killed an estimated 40,000 people and displaced 12 million, making it the largest displacement crisis in the world. “We are suffering here,” said one pastor.

People want relationships without tension—a lover perfectly attuned to our desires, a friend who completely shares our interests and opinions, and a child with all the traits we want to pass on. But, @drmoore.bsky.social argues, genuine intimacy requires more.

In the place of the evangelical women’s blogosphere, “we see Christian influencers self-sorting by ideology, and young women now face a fragmented media landscape without the shared spaces that once defined evangelical womanhood.”

In an “after Christendom” world, Collin Hansen argues, “people need to see that they hold many assumptions about the good life and morality, and those are probably significantly shaped by Christianity.”

The high court concluded that Malaysian pastor Raymond Koh’s kidnappers acted in a “sophisticated manner” that suggested institutional involvement and ordered the state to reopen the investigation. New on @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/mala...

Adoption fraud in South Korea is a “state-driven act—an actual crime,” Kim Do-hyun of Christian nonprofit KoRoot said. “These false records erased the truth of [a person’s] birth and enabled abuse, alienation, and despair." More in @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...

Open AI recently announced that ChatGPT will roll out a new erotica feature. Russell Moore and Mike Cosper sat down with philosopher Brandon Rickabaugh to discuss the call of Jesus in a world where AI chatbot companions offer an illusion of intimacy:

The looming cessation of SNAP benefits exacerbates already-strained resources at the country’s food banks. The need could very quickly reach “catastrophic levels” that outpace food charities, said the director of Christian antihunger organization Bread for the World.

“Let’s just go on the air—unfiltered.” This week on The Russell Moore Show: Russell Moore and David French discuss faith, fear, and the future of the church.

I was honored to write again for @christianitytoday.com -- this time on why the church still matters. Week after week we resist the temptation to sort ourselves into factions and exclude those who have no worldly power to wield on our behalf. 1/2 www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/beco...

NEW: In interviews with @christianitytoday.com, adoptees and advocates from South Korea grieved the recent adoption-fraud findings, which have spurred Christians in the country to reevaluate the church’s role in adoption. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/sout...

A recent report found the South Korean government conspired to kidnap children to fill the overseas adoption pipeline. The news, which one adoptee called a “worst nightmare come true,” has spurred Christians to reevaluate the church’s role in adoption.

When the president exercises lethal force without congressional authority, we all lose. Mike Cosper, Russell Moore, and homeland security expert Elizabeth Neumann discuss the U.S. attacks on drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean Sea.

Will there be a Christian halftime show? We don’t know. Here’s some reporting on what we DO know about the ideas that are percolating and the historical precedent for Super Bowl counter-programming. @christianitytoday.com www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/will...

“The compact is just the kind of excessive federal overreach and regulation, to the detriment of state and local input and control, that this administration says it is against,” said a statement from The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities.

What if the real radicals right now are the ones who refuse to join the outrage mobs? This week on The Russell Moore Show: JD Greear and @drmoore.bsky.social discuss what culture wars are doing to us.

Even with a rival group reordering the global body, the messy reality of Anglicanism, with liberals and conservatives and everything in between bound up in loose affiliation, will continue for now. @christianitytoday.com story: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/angl...

I first pitched this story idea to my colleague Kara Bettis Carvalho in 2023. This month, I finally put words to my experience of miscarriage, shame, and how Eli and Hannah's conversation in Scripture can shape ours @christianitytoday.com: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ther...

If eternity includes harps and the ships of Tarshish, why not computers and AI too? asks computer science professor ​​Derek C. Schuurman.

You can now read and share @christianitytoday.com's story on China detaining Zion Church's pastor Jin "Ezra" Mingri in Chinese (simplified & traditional), Spanish, and French. Chinese: zh.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ezra... zh-tw.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ezra...

More than 100 million Christians around the world can't freely access Scripture due to publishing shortages or government restrictions. @christianitytoday.com story: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/glob...

It’s unclear whether Joy Moore resigned her leadership at Northern Seminary a day before they planned to officially install her as president.

Many Korean American churches have stayed silent on recent ICE raids, seeking to protect undocumented members and to preserve unity among congregants who hold differing political views. @christianitytoday.com story: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/10/ice-...

The shrinking Palestinian Christian population is wary of the cease-fire agreement. “We’ll have a few years … of peace, but things will happen again, and wars will erupt because the issue isn’t solved from its roots,” said one Palestinian pastor.

Mike Cosper sat down with Haviv Rettig Gur of The Free Press to talk about the tenuous nature of the peace between Israel and Hamas.

Very little research exists on the role Christian hospitals play in Africa’s health systems. But a new study suggests that “they are not simply a health systems relic of a bygone missionary era, but still have relevance and a part to play.”

In a coordinated attack, China detained the senior pastor of the influential Zion Church along with dozens of church leaders. Yet the church’s remaining leaders based overseas plan to continue to serve Zion’s network, which reaches 10,000 people.

“When our leaders—in the church and out—are unserious people, people we don’t even expect to bear the weighty authority of trust, we are not playing a game,” writes @drmoore.bsky.social. “People are counting on us. Lots of them haven’t been born yet.”

In the Supreme Court’s first major case this term, evangelical therapist Kaley Chiles is arguing that the Colorado law banning conversion therapy is a violation of her free speech.

Two years after October 7, Christians in Israel and Egypt continue to share a message of hope amid suffering.

Now over 90 years old, Wendell Berry seems to have embedded in his latest novel, “Marce Catlett,” a kind of last word for his readers—a goodbye from Port William to us. @drmoore.bsky.social has our review:

Gateway Church founder Robert Morris has pleaded guilty to child sex abuse that took place over 30 years ago.

“You don’t have to be remarkable to live a remarkable life. You simply have to live the quiet yet counter-cultural life of faith, a faith grounded in the knowledge that we’re citizens of another kingdom with an all-conquering King.”