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Right now, the Western Hemisphere's second-oldest republic is collapsing. Militant gangs in Haiti control more than half of the capital, Port-au-Prince. They block roads and extract bribes at gunpoint for [...]

THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT THE CORONAVIRUS IN THE US IS TO BEAT IT EVERYWHERE. CAN WE REALLY SAVE THE WHOLE WORLD? In early March, $6,500 could buy you and [...]

I In the early years after its founding in 2004, Hands and Feet Project was climbing a steep learning curve as it sought to help vulnerable children in southern Haiti. [...]

INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE Mission's earliest days, founder Gary Haugen was parked in front of a Safeway grocery store one evening crying, worried that his fledgling nonprofit would not make payroll for [...]

Hope for Haiti (April, p. 19) In January, I was on a Zoom call with Haiti's ambassador to the US and representatives from aid groups that work in Haiti. The [...]

THE KNOCKING ROUSED VALENTIN SALAMANCA FROM BED AROUND 4 A.M. HE WAS NOT SLEEPING ANYWAY HE FEARED THEY WOULD COME, AND NOW THEY HAD. Valentin walked a few steps from [...]

Lexington Rescue Mission is the largest evangelical ministry serving homeless and formerly incarcerated people in Lexington, Kentucky, the city where I live. It's a growing organization working with a growing [...]

Sometimes a congregation's purpose is in the eye of the beholder. ANDY OLSEN Print Managing Editor The building at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue has been [...]

The vocation of Jesus and his earthly father, Joseph, has always tempted romantic imaginations. The creators of the streaming series The Chosen, for example, depicted Jesus alternately as a Santa-esque [...]

It is a founding myth--tinged perhaps with either wishful nostalgia or unsentimental relief--that the church was always at the center of American community life. For much of the country's colonial [...]

Twenty years ago on September 11, I was studying abroad, staring at CNN in the living room of a house in Costa Rica. Never had I felt farther from home. [...]

Back in graduate school, at a wonderful Boston-area university known for many things but decidedly not for Christian formation, one of my professors asked a room full of students: 'Do [...]

In a 1999 interview, Kathleen Norris introduced CT readers to the term 'holy gossip,' which she defined as 'things I need to know to be a member of the community.' [...]

One of the most formative church bodies I've been part of met in a nearly windowless old post office in central Kentucky. Cristo Reina was a majority-Latino congregation pastored by [...]

Marriage is hard. Plenty of institutions attest to that: couples therapy, couples retreats, and, of course, divorce. But a good marriage isn't just difficult to sustain; it can be difficult [...]

David Swartz, a historian at Asbury University, offers a provocative reminder in this month's cover story that many of our institutions stand on the shoulders of unsung giants. It's not [...]

Late last year, minutes after we published an online editorial by then-editor in chief Mark Galli about President Donald Trump's fitness for office, the phones in CT's offices began ringing [...]

One of the tendencies at many workplaces is to speak of employees as 'a family.' It's often well meaning. Even at corporations and non-religious organizations, many leaders strive to live [...]

Christianity had plenty of chinks in its doctrinal armor in the early days, when its creeds were still solidifying and state-sponsored persecution was buffeting it on all sides. The pesky [...]

It's become something of a trend, in op-eds and in more private conversations, to christen our current moment as 'dark days' or even 'the new Dark Ages' for the church. [...]

My children have 'safe' spaces where they hide toys they don't want their siblings to touch. This behavior comes naturally. They, like most of us, believe instinctively that they'll take [...]

As a cub reporter in 2001, I walked into a Mexican restaurant in Nicholasville, Kentucky, ordered an orange Jarritos soft drink, and asked the Honduran-born manager if he would be [...]

A round the time we got all the world's data in the palm of our hand, American missions agencies stopped trusting a lot of it. In 2009 and 2010, smartphone [...]

Consciously or not, ambitious book authors make a kind of existential choice early in their career: Write to sell, or write to win awards. Those two camps occasionally overlap for [...]

While CT has always published Christmas essays and stories in December, it's been seven years since we put together a Christmas-themed cover. The last time was in 2011, when Michael [...]

The most entrepreneurial city in North America is, in many ways, just what you might expect. Jeans-clad urban workers lounging in downtown parks and grabbing lunch from food carts. Men [...]

My neighbor on the flight from Los Angeles to Chicago was a little cagey, but the usual battery of polite airplane questions eventually shook something loose. He'd studied economics in [...]

In April 2013, my family vacationed in South Texas. My wife and I holed up with our one-year-old in a cabin on the banks of the Guadalupe River in the [...]

The fashion industry has always been an easy target when criticizing the media's perpetuation of poor female self-image. Those postwar sketches of docile housewives. Or today's prurient and Photoshopped magazine [...]

Even for a five-year-old, my son has big emotions. He and my wife were chatting in our hallway recently. She stepped into another room--just a few feet away--to change our [...]

The article focuses on reevaluating the concept of "quiet time" for personal Scripture study, suggesting that an overemphasis on it has led to decreased biblical literacy. It discusses alternative methods such as group readings; contextual understanding, and communal study; also highlighting the viewpoint that different modes of Scripture study can serve distinct purposes and both community study and solitude with God are valuable practices.

One of my favorite musicians was about an hour into his set at a recent concert. His typically pithy stage patter began to lengthen, and it was evident we'd come [...]

Apologies if this disappoints, but I was never a Bible genius. Don't misunderstand: My love for Scripture runs deep. But I've always had to work harder than others to write [...]

Even when we should see them coming, layoffs tend to arrive like a thief in the night. Mine came on Election Day 2008. I was sitting at my desk that [...]

An interview with International Justice Mission (IJM) President Sean Litton is presented. When asked about the biggest challenge IJM faces, he refers to the slaveowners, predatory police, people who prey on widows and orphans, people who prey on small children as biggest challenge. He expresses the view on combating modern-day slavery, future look of IJM, and focus on IJM work with governments, organizations, and corporations. He comments on what the justice is and to depend on Christ.

The article reports on how a Montgomery lynching memorial could help Christians repent and a nation heal. Topics include the case of an African American man named Alonzo Tucker who was lynched from a bridge in 1902, the works of the advocacy group Equal Justice Initiative started by Bryan Stevenson, and the history of Christianity with racial injustice in the U.S.

The article discusses the stories of immigrant missionaries that are living in El Salvador and their works as missionaries in the country performing services for the church and carrying out missions for the people. Other topics discussed the issue of drug cartels, the state of the immigrants in the country and transnational seminaries.

The article presents author's view on Lexington Rescue Mission, which is the largest evangelical ministry serving homeless and formerly incarcerated people in Lexington, Kentucky; which needed more room to provide clients with career counseling, training, Bible studies, and prayer. Informs, ministry purchased a large office building in a different downtown neighborhood, where it needs no special permission to run its outreach programs or expand its services.

An introduction is presented which discusses article on several topics including people with a different variety of faith, people who had given up demanding quick fixes to their desperate situations and unforeseen graces such as a kind word, a refugee's prayer of blessing over a journalist.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles within the issue on topics including pastoral ministry, pastoral burnout and the work of church pastors.

The author discusses church building at the corner of Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California and La Brea Avenue which has been occupied by Christian Science congregation and mentions job taken by grifter Charles Sebesta at the church. Topics discussed include evangelical church led by Erwin McManus rented space in 2011, campaign to buy the property launched by Mosaic and shortage of fundraising goal of Mosaic.

An introduction is presented in which author discusses article on topics including reports that Medieval Britons decided young Jesus have spent time in England and in the 19th and 20th centuries, various writers on spiritual walkabout in India claimed evidence that Christ journeyed.

The article discusses how the church was always at the center of the community life in the U.S., as of November 2021. The benefits of the church are cited, including regular worship, prayer meetings and Sunday school. It points out the church's leading role in education through Sunday school which was ended by compulsory education. It also cites the belief of U.S. citizens that the church nurtured the community's ongoing health.

In the article, the author discusses the importance for people around the world to be aware of the news and events worldwide to learn more about them. He claims that Westerners should learn more about Afghanistan, church outsiders to know about clergy abuse, and Democrats to read what Republicans want. Also mentioned is the key role played by the media in disseminating news about events worldwide.

The article offers information about the Kathleen Norris, a poet and essayist writing to church communities, the best-selling author celebrated a sort of prying into others' personal lives that we do in search of ways to offer help and support. It mentions about the pervasive impact of social media on the communities.

The author comments on his experience at Cristo Reina, a majority-Latino congregation pastored by a team of Mexican and Mexican American seminary students. Topics covered include his experience being a white man in the minority, the promise of a coming multiethnic worship community for anyone who takes the scripture seriously and God's love for his people.

In this article, the author talks about personal versions of orthodoxy in the U.S. by mentioning about an online editorial of editor in chief Mark Galli about President Donald Trump's fitness for office. Topics discussed include the catalogs of Scripture and church history trying to assemble right doctrine; Christianity and an Old Testament prophet.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses an article on the Americans attitude to workplace and their search for identity and worth.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses several articles published within issue on topics including sociological debate reconsidering how polls categorize black and white Christians; evangelical theology; and the book "The Jesus I Never Knew" by Philip Yancey.

An introduction is presented in which the editor discusses articles in the issue on topics including evangelicalism, concerns about slipping biblical literacy, and stillness.