The Discerner

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

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

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

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,

I read the story twice, hoping I had misread it the first time. Amber Nadeem is thirteen. She is a Christian girl from the Faisalabad area of Pakistan. Last year, according to her family and their advocates, a Muslim man named Mohsin Liaqat took her, and what followed was the

Of everything the police carried out of those homes in Yueyang, it is not the Bibles I keep thinking about. It is the files. On July 11, authorities in Yueyang, a city in China's Hunan province, raided a network of house churches. ChinaAid, which broke the story, reports