Pakistan Observed a Day for Its Minorities Yesterday. The People It Is For Call It a Day of Demand.
A day for equal citizenship, observed by a state whose constitution still bars a Christian from its two highest offices.
I Shared the Revival Numbers Before I Read Them. Here Is What the Second Chart Says.
Gen Z really is going to church more often. That study counts churchgoers. The other Barna report, the one nobody made a graphic of, says practicing Christians have halved in 25 years.
I Knew Which Version of This Story I Wanted Before I Knew Any of the Facts
Two pastors detained in Texas, two accounts of why, and the speed at which I decided which one to believe.
Our News Has a Blind Spot, and It Is Shaped Like 388 Million People
This week a scholar did something uncomfortable. He counted.
Greg Cochran, a fellow at International Christian Concern, ran searches across the big Christian news outlets to see how often they cover the persecution of Christians, compared with everything else they cover. He is upfront that the counts are indicative, not
The Law Arrives Quietly This Morning. The Sisters Are Already at the Bedsides.
Laws do not arrive the way we imagine. There is no bell, no procession. At midnight, somewhere in an Albany server, a date field ticked over, and New York became a state where a terminally ill person can ask a physician for the drugs to end their life. That is
Before They Come for the Pastor, They Practice on His Children
There is a kind of courage we almost never talk about in church, and it belongs to children. Not the courage of the missionary or the martyr. The courage of a nine year old who bows his head over lunch at a school where the teacher has already told him
The List With 117 Names On It
I have been thinking all week about a list with 117 names on it.
On July 8, Amnesty International UK published a report titled "A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK." It named 117 organizations as part of what it called an ecosystem sharing values,