After this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.

The widespread outrage over Kristi Noem’s book should awaken moral responsibility—not just toward pets but for one another.

Why the church has struggled to address mental illness well and how we can care better.

A professor explains why examining a school’s doctrinal statement isn’t enough.

Every sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently.

A law professor shares lessons on respectful disagreement in the classroom, the church, and the wider culture.

A late historian explores how crusade hymns told both the classic story of gospel salvation and the evolving story of evangelical worship music.

Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co-laborers.

The rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community.

The world is realizing anew that our faith has tangible benefits. This is an opportunity for the gospel.

Let us not give up meeting together—even when we disagree.

Christians can disciple each other toward action, prayer, and hope.

Helping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian.

Our message cannot be market tested or manufactured.

If they don’t “apologize” in the modern sense, it’s only because Scripture has a richer vocabulary of repentance.

How Jesus rescued a New Age psychic from spiritual darkness.

A new book seems oddly outraged that CRT skeptics take its arguments seriously.

One of England’s finest writers surveys the past and present of English faith.

Chosen by Lindsay A. Franklin, freelance editor and author of The Weaver trilogy.