Christianity

Two thousand years of Christianity in Syria could be wiped out by the very forces Western governments are supporting, an Anglican vicar has claimed.

There has been much concern in the past year over North Korea and its threat of launching nuclear weapons. But just last week, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met with South Korean president Moon Jae-in.

Earlier this week on his daily podcast, The Briefing, Albert Mohler pointed out a major error in an NPR report that refers to the Christian celebration of Easter. This error, says Mohler, reveals the “extent of secularization” in American culture.

How do Christians in the USA experience life in an easier way than non-Christians?” Students at George Washington University can learn about this and other related questions in a workshop entitled “Christian Privilege: But our founding fathers were all Christians, right?”

Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban made a strong statement in his recent state of the nation address.

True to form, Ehrman, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, doesn’t exalt in Christianity’s success, despite his new book’s title. “In this book I have tried to explain the triumph of Christianity without making it a triumphalist narrative,” he writes.

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the rift between science and Christianity have been greatly exaggerated.

Christianity has changed the world in so many significant ways, many of which we are probably not even aware of on a daily basis. In his new book "Unimaginable: What our World Would be Like without Christianity," Dr. Jeremiah J. Johnston explores the ways in which Christianity has impacted the world for good and also what the world would be like if not for Jesus and the values He instills in every human life. Dr. Johnston looks at the impact Christianity has had--and is having--on the world from a cultural, historical, political, and personal standpoint. Below are excerpts based on Dr. Johnston's new book which draw attention to ten specific ways in which Christianity has influenced and changed the world for the better.<p><p>Photo courtesy: ©Thinkstockphotos.com

On one hand, it’s refreshing to see a science professor stand up against postmodernism. On the other hand, people who live in glass houses . . . .

Metropolitan Hilarion, the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, has warned that Christianity is dying out in Europe and being replaced with secular ideology.