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…the Classical influence that rubbed off on Christianity. Christianity took hold among Greeks and Romans steeped in the Classical philosophical tradition, and that left its mark. The now-retired pope, Benedict…

…public school treatment of Christianity, including ignoring Christianity, is anti-Christian. It telegraphs to students that whether Christianity is true does not matter. What matters are its tangential effects upon society….

…Christianity. Marxists Hate Christianity’s Fusion of Faith and Reason Christianity created specific institutions that we identify with the West, like hospitals and universities, but it did much more. Most importantly,…

“Meanwhile, a widespread decline in churchgoing and religious affiliation had contributed to a growing anxiety among conservative believers.” Statements like this are uttered with such confidence and frequency that most…

The stats are given as often and with as much confidence as they are wrong. The story goes that our nation is growing more secular with every passing day. Christianity…

…abolitionist activism in the 1830s, Southerners began to mount a defense of slavery that came to include a scriptural defense. Initially conceived as a defense of Christianity, an assurance to…

Stop accepting the Bible as true and admit Christianity has gotten it terribly wrong on homosexuality. This is the advice Rev. Oliver Thomas gives in a recent opinion article in…

…a pseudo-theology that opposes Christianity. Thus, it is imperative that Christians fight the sin of racism both personally and socially, while also ensuring that when we address racism, we do…

…as the embodiment of Christianity, but rather as its protector. Does Christianity really need a protector? Is it actually being threatened with becoming a marginal force in American society? Here…

…Bar Mitzvah well over a decade ago—but I can say that Black’s appraisal of Christianity is, quite literally, total nonsense. For starters, Christianity since the sixteenth century has been a…

…ancient polis and the church. Throughout the book, Deneen treats classical political philosophy and Christianity as if they were almost the same. Christianity is mentioned repeatedly, but it is always…

…and more hardship … When will you rescue us?” A once-in-a-thousand-year threat to Christianity is being waged wildly in the heart of the birthplace of Christianity. And the world sleeps….

Christianity’s advent into the world introduced a tension that has since become everpresent in public life: The proper relation of religion and politics. Until Christ, church and state were largely…

The most uneducated but wildly popular critique of Christianity in America — especially on social media —  is that Christianity has been a bastion of oppression and intolerance. So much…

…the church, whose ministers preach the Word and administer the sacraments. This doesn’t imply that Christianity is naturally weak absent state support. Rather, it means Christianity should infuse all of…

…out, if you can believe it): The christianity of too many millennials is built around proving what type of Christian we are not. This is not edifying. Michael Wear (@MichaelRWear)…

…clear: “conservative” Christianity bad; “liberal” Christianity good. The division is illusory, however. God’s law, which flows from His perfect nature, is rational, immutable, and eternal. It doesn’t “evolve” and “adapt.”…

…promised apostate Muslims like Ali that they could have all the benefits of Christianity without Christianity itself are now abandoning the principles they once espoused. In recent weeks, we have…

…the New Agey messages of Democratic candidates Marianne Williamson and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s hard sell of progressive Christianity. Politicized Religion and ‘Progressive Christianity’ An equally important part…

…darkness, she does so with no realization or understanding that Christianity is very much about that exact fight. Christianity is explicitly and timelessly about the battle between good and evil,…

…all the boxes, including religion. And he is without a doubt the most dangerous candidate for Christianity and the gospel. Pete Preaches a False Gospel of Affirmation Faith-related comments have…

…already laid out why this was a blatant attack on Christianity and a slap in the face to Christians — but focus instead on the larger story within which the…

…a recognition that Christianity has had a unique and privileged influence on our American heritage that overshadows the influences of other faith traditions, 2) a conviction that a Christian understanding…

…German Christianity? Is gospel music African Christianity? No, they are just facets of the same Christianity that unifies everyone under Christ. Dividing Christianity by race is directly antithetical to the…

…for Christianity is not just more deaths and a slightly slowing birth rate, but people actually leaving Christianity. Pew projects it will lose 8 million adherents while the unaffiliated will…

The following essay is adapted from the author’s new book, Pagan America: The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come. It’s hard to survey the state of our…

…the media and the Never Trump movement go wildly off course. They conclude that Americans are abandoning Christianity because of Trump. And therefore, this decline in Christianity is evidence Christians…

…of mainline churches should be seen as an opportunity for authentic Christianity to rise—a Christianity that knows its identity is rooted not a priori in a political or social agenda,…

Review of “Christianity on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Christian Faith,” by W. Mark Lanier. InterVarsity Press (2014), 230 pages, paper, $16. Americans have always loved books, movies, and television…

…an obligation to rise in its defense. To lay down a marker, for those who insist that faithful Christianity is “on the wrong side of history.” To explain why we…

…by priests (as opposed to bishops), the general point of all Christianity is forgiveness for our sins. And it’s not some newfangled thing. We’ve been preaching the forgiveness of sins…

…is either wishful thinking, hipster Christian theologians trying to be cool, or just outright Gnostics dismissing historic Christianity as an apostate church while true Christianity hid out in the hills…

…right. In knowing both the content of the Bible and the doctrinal foundations of Christianity, we Americans aren’t just at the bottom of our class. We are, as Ross Douthat…

There are more than 2.5 billion professing Christians on the globe today, or roughly 32 percent of the world’s population. This makes Christianity the largest collection of people holding one…

In 2010, sociologist James Davison Hunter, famous for, among other things, popularizing the term “culture war” provocatively argued in To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity…

…a vision of Christ led him to victory in battle, the Roman emperor made Christianity legal for the first time in its history. This political endorsement of Christianity was both…