US foreign aid is unexpectedly in the news in 2025 as never before. What do Christians need to know, to help us be part of the dialogue? America's history of foreign aid dates back at least to the Marshall Plan that followed World War II. Many Christians have been involved. How have these believers thought
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Everything we take in, from literature to music to the words of a friend, forms us, laying the groundwork for our spiritual, moral and emotional growth. As each of us seeks to understand our own place in God’s creation, how can an imaginative approach help provide wisdom? What can we learn from the ways Christian
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In a world awash with insidious messages about money, can Christians think about it differently? Woven through the Old and New Testaments is the instruction for God’s people to tithe, setting aside a portion of our income to give back to God’s mission. In honest moments, however, many of us find our minds confused about
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Christian faith is often seen as a move away from reason and an embrace of the otherworldly, irrational, and unreasonable. But what if believing is the most reasonable, rational thing a human being can do? Amid mounting evidence that America’s long religious decline has leveled off, and growing dissatisfaction with “do it yourself” approaches to
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In the context of the pagan classical world, the Christian faith was a shocking, even unfathomable inversion of the values systems and structures of the time, and its explosive growth unimaginable. Yet in today’s world, Christianity is often considered boring or backwards. How might we better discern and understand the radicalism of Christianity’s origins, its
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Anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges are surging among both young and old. By some estimates, more than one in five American adults struggle with some form of mental illness each year. There are few untouched – either directly or through loved ones – with the suffering that attends such struggles. What does faith
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C.S. Lewis famously credited G.K. Chesterton’s The Everlasting Man as a key step in his turn from atheism to Christian faith. The book audaciously surveyed the broad sweep of human history, then zeroed in on the Incarnation of Christ. How, Chesterton asked, could such a mysterious and startling event come to be known as the
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Is our Constitution part of the problem we face, or part of the solution? In a time of polarization, anger, and confusion, some argue that its design, requiring dialogue and compromise, no longer works. What can history teach us about whether the constitutional order can help us to navigate deep differences and pursue “a more
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What does it mean to flourish? On October 18, we hosted Dr. Byron Johnson, the leader of the landmark Global Flourishing Study, to explore the foundations of flourishing—including happiness and life satisfaction, mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, relationships, and character and virtue—and the role that faith plays in the generation and cultivation of
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The appropriation of Christian images and language by extremists who advocate violence has become a shocking feature of our time. Surveys show alarming numbers of people who self-identify as religious expressing openness to political violence. Against such a distortion of Christian witness, how can we faithfully live out our calling to be people of peace?
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