June (Web-only) 2015
![What Hypnobirthing Taught Me About Trusting God What Hypnobirthing Taught Me About Trusting God](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60888.jpg?h=123&w=220)
What Hypnobirthing Taught Me About Trusting God
My body may be broken, but it’s capable.
![Sodom, Leviticus, and Obergefell: The Bible After Friday's Decision Sodom, Leviticus, and Obergefell: The Bible After Friday's Decision](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60858.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Sodom, Leviticus, and Obergefell: The Bible After Friday's Decision
Scriptures searched and tweeted in response to the Supreme Court's same-sex marriage order.
![Gay Marriage, Abortion, and the Bigger Picture Gay Marriage, Abortion, and the Bigger Picture](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60837.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Gay Marriage, Abortion, and the Bigger Picture
Living out God’s will requires us to look beyond single issues.
![Gay Marriage 'Outrage and Panic' Off Limits, Evangelical Leaders Say Gay Marriage 'Outrage and Panic' Off Limits, Evangelical Leaders Say](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60836.jpg?h=123&w=220)
'Outrage and Panic' Are Off-Limits, Say Evangelical Leaders on Same-Sex Marriage
(UPDATED) Groups say the gospel requires different reactions.
![Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60815.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Here We Stand: An Evangelical Declaration on Marriage
More than 100 leaders respond to Supreme Court legalizing same-sex marriage.
![The Most Popular Bible Verses for Debating Gay Marriage The Most Popular Bible Verses for Debating Gay Marriage](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60829.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The Most Popular Bible Verses for Debating Gay Marriage
What Scripture stats reveal about evangelicals' shifting rhetoric.
![What Else to Read about the Gay Marriage Decision What Else to Read about the Gay Marriage Decision](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60830.jpg?h=123&w=220)
What Else to Read about the Gay Marriage Decision
We address things legal, pastoral, and spiritual
![Six Things To Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage Six Things To Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60821.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Six Things To Do after the Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage
Now is not the time to sulk.
español![Taking the Charleston Shooting Personally Taking the Charleston Shooting Personally](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60826.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Taking the Charleston Shooting Personally
Why Black Americans—and this time, white Americans too—can relate to the Emanuel Nine.
!['Korean Evangelicals on Steroids' 'Korean Evangelicals on Steroids'](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60814.jpg?h=123&w=220)
'Korean Evangelicals on Steroids'
Meet the band of intensely devoted Asian missionaries working around the clock to re-Christianize America.
![Healing Mission Field PTSD Healing Mission Field PTSD](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60794.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Healing Mission Field PTSD
How trauma counseling helps missionaries and the populations they serve.
![Stop Explaining Away Black Christian Forgiveness Stop Explaining Away Black Christian Forgiveness](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60787.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Stop Explaining Away Black Christian Forgiveness
The Charleston families did not forgive to express the values of their race, but to be faithful to their God.
!['A.D. The Bible Continues' Concludes (For Now) 'A.D. The Bible Continues' Concludes (For Now)](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60782.jpg?h=123&w=220)
'A.D. The Bible Continues' Concludes (For Now)
Telling the story of the early Church in a way that speaks to modern Christians while keeping curious non-believers entertained can't be easy.
![Jesus Wants You to Wait Jesus Wants You to Wait](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60758.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Jesus Wants You to Wait
Waiting is not something to be avoided or overcome, but to be embraced.
![Let the Boston Bomber Live Let the Boston Bomber Live](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60684.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Let the Boston Bomber Live
Why I oppose the death penalty, even for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
![How Charleston’s Emanuel AME Spent Sunday after Massacre How Charleston’s Emanuel AME Spent Sunday after Massacre](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60678.jpg?h=123&w=220)
How Charleston’s Emanuel AME Spent Sunday after Massacre
Scenes from the hot, crowded, and praise-filled worship in South Carolina.
![Going Deeper after the Charleston Murders Going Deeper after the Charleston Murders](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60669.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Going Deeper after the Charleston Murders
Evil like this calls for both anguished lament and better theology.
![A Father for the Romans A Father for the Romans](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60659.jpg?h=123&w=220)
A Father for the Romans
To call God our “Father” is remarkable. When we consider the Romans’ understanding of fatherhood, the Christian practice is even more profound.
![Transracial Is a Valid Identity Transracial Is a Valid Identity](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60653.png?h=123&w=220)
Transracial Is a Valid Identity
Just not the way it’s being applied to Rachel Dolezal.
![Infinitely Polar Bear Infinitely Polar Bear](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60597.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Infinitely Polar Bear
Mark Ruffalo is superb as a man with bipolar disorder struggling to keep his family together.
![Where Did Country Music’s Leading Ladies Go? Where Did Country Music’s Leading Ladies Go?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60566.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Where Did Country Music’s Leading Ladies Go?
Talking back to the trends and ‘strategies’ keeping female vocalists off the airwaves.
![How Christians Can Observe Ramadan How Christians Can Observe Ramadan](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60564.jpg?h=123&w=220)
How Christians Can Observe Ramadan
A billion Muslims are fasting and seeking God. Let’s pray he comes to them.
!['A.D. The Bible Continues': Not Every Story is a Conversion Story 'A.D. The Bible Continues': Not Every Story is a Conversion Story](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60515.jpeg?h=123&w=220)
'A.D. The Bible Continues': Not Every Story is a Conversion Story
The penultimate episode leaves us wondering why these writers imagine evil much more easily than good.
![What Elisabeth Elliot Taught Me about Longing What Elisabeth Elliot Taught Me about Longing](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60483.jpg?h=123&w=220)
What Elisabeth Elliot Taught Me about Longing
For this 21st-century single, her ‘Passion and Purity’ has stood the test of time.
![Kay Warren Remembers the ‘Radical Obedience’ of Elisabeth Elliot Kay Warren Remembers the ‘Radical Obedience’ of Elisabeth Elliot](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60468.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Kay Warren Remembers the ‘Radical Obedience’ of Elisabeth Elliot
Elliot was a spiritual mentor for a generation of Jesus Freaks.
![Teaching Teenagers to Manage Invisible Money Teaching Teenagers to Manage Invisible Money](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60419.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Teaching Teenagers to Manage Invisible Money
With spending a click away, our financial lessons are even more urgent.
!['A.D. The Bible Continues': Who Exactly is James? 'A.D. The Bible Continues': Who Exactly is James?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60384.jpeg?h=123&w=220)
'A.D. The Bible Continues': Who Exactly is James?
There are some surprises in the tenth episode of the NBC miniseries, when the show also says goodbye to Saul.
![Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Me and Earl and the Dying Girl](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60378.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
What do you do when a movie says something itself better than you could ever hope to say it?
![Jurassic World Jurassic World](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60371.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Jurassic World
After going extinct in 2001, the franchise returns with a familiar warning: Don’t play God. (But it sure makes for a fun ride.)
![The Wolfpack The Wolfpack](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60364.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The Wolfpack
A documentary about a troubling family situation that turns into something much bigger than its subjects.
![Sex, Drugs, and Getting Old Sex, Drugs, and Getting Old](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60311.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Sex, Drugs, and Getting Old
The cost of turning to prescriptions promising to keep us young.
![No, Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation No, Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60247.jpg?h=123&w=220)
No, Prayer Isn’t Really a Conversation
Even in the New Testament, talking with God is mostly unilateral. But he does answer.
Português简体中文繁體中文![When It's Hard to Call God "Father" When It's Hard to Call God "Father"](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60077.jpg?h=123&w=220)
When It's Hard to Call God "Father"
For Jo Saxton, growing to know God as Father meant a long journey of forgiveness.
![People Over Profit: Easier Said Than Done People Over Profit: Easier Said Than Done](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60228.jpg?h=123&w=220)
People Over Profit: Easier Said Than Done
Even good-hearted entrepreneurs run into practical complications.
![The Last Gasp of the Cradle Christians? The Last Gasp of the Cradle Christians?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60004.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The Last Gasp of the Cradle Christians?
The American church has a key role in rescuing, restoring, and returning Christians and other religious minorities who have fled ISIS.
![Getting a Handle on Boko Haram Getting a Handle on Boko Haram](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60155.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Getting a Handle on Boko Haram
What we know, and what we don’t, about Nigeria’s brutal band of Islamists.
![How Evangelicalism Built Its Brand Loyalty How Evangelicalism Built Its Brand Loyalty](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60139.jpg?h=123&w=220)
How Evangelicalism Built Its Brand Loyalty
It all goes back to the smiling gentleman on the Quaker Oats label.
![‘As Long as the Baby’s Healthy’… But What if He’s Not? ‘As Long as the Baby’s Healthy’… But What if He’s Not?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60111.png?h=123&w=220)
‘As Long as the Baby’s Healthy’… But What if He’s Not?
One mom’s reflections on pregnancy and all that really matters.
!['A.D. The Bible Continues': Saul, Peter, and the Skeptics 'A.D. The Bible Continues': Saul, Peter, and the Skeptics](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60105.jpeg?h=123&w=220)
'A.D. The Bible Continues': Saul, Peter, and the Skeptics
As the NBC miniseries continues, it makes use of some texts outside Acts—but only some.
![The Problem with 'Mad Max' Feminism The Problem with 'Mad Max' Feminism](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60035.jpg?h=123&w=220)
The Problem with 'Mad Max' Feminism
Is men’s propensity for violence really something to be imitated?
![Mindfulness Doesn’t Have to Be All About Us Mindfulness Doesn’t Have to Be All About Us](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60087.png?h=123&w=220)
Mindfulness Doesn’t Have to Be All About Us
Becca Stevens slows down for the sake of service.
![Still Restless, Though I Rest in Thee Still Restless, Though I Rest in Thee](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/59999.jpg?h=123&w=220)
Still Restless, Though I Rest in Thee
'Mad Men' reminds of a universal truth and an abiding hope.