Baylor historian Philip Jenkins predicts that in the people will think about church in terms of “BC…Before Coronavirus,” and after.
The key factor in Jenkin’s fascinating analysis is what we might call “pre-existing conditions.” In other words, in many ways, the coronavirus hasn’t so much created problems for the Church as it has revealed and accelerated them.
Christian missionaries are the ones so often depicted as judgmental and dismissive of native cultures. The history of Christian missions certainly does include bad ideas about native peoples and bad behavior by those tasked with bringing the Good News to them. Still, today, it’s Western liberal secularists leading the way in being judgmental and dismissive of native cultures.
Happy holidays or merry Christmas? The divide over Christmas appears to be escalating as our cultures secularism rises.
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren said Tuesday she would consider hiring an outreach director for atheists and those who are unaffiliated with any religion.
A church and state watchdog group is asking the U.S. Inspector General to investigate Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
According to a new study released by the Barna Group, young people of faith experience less anxiety and more optimism than those who don’t attend church or adhere to a faith.
The percentage of Americans who identify as Christian continued to decline in a new study, although those who consider themselves to be evangelicals fell only slightly.
If a time-traveler from the Early Church secretly followed you from Monday till Saturday evening, would they be able to tell you’re a Christian?
The infamous “Millennials” are the generational cohort born between 1980 and 1997, and they may be most-overanalyzed demographic group in American history. Unlike previous holders of that title, the “Baby Boomers,” most of the analysis of the Millennials has been negative, and has included words like “privileged, narcissistic, entitled, [and] spoiled.” That’s quite a cynical conclusion about more than eighty million people.
Eight northeastern and New England cities earned top spots on Barna Group’s annual list of most “post-Christian” cities.
