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The Guardian view on Pope Leo XIV: a different kind of American leader | Editorial

The first pontiff from the United States can be a powerful countervailing voice in the Trump era, and help protect Francis’s legacyTwelve years ago, in the words of the late Pope Francis, the Catho...

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9 Things You Should Know About Pope Leo XIV

On May 8, 2025, the Catholic Church announced the election of a new pope. American-born Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost is now Pope Leo XIV, the head of the Catholic Church and spiritual leader to ...

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Why ‘Chasing Your Dreams’ Settles for Too Little

We’ve all learned the proper way to read a book: You begin at the first page, move steadily through the chapters, and finish at the end. It’s a simple, logical progression. But when it comes to an ...

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Resist the Cultural Tide. Go to Church.

When I started in pastoral ministry 15 years ago, the intellectual arguments of New Atheism were the most popular objections to Christianity. I read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins to understan...

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Pope Leo XIV to hold his first mass as pontiff as Catholics around the world celebrate – live

Pope will hold private mass in the Sistine Chapel at 0900 GMT, during which he will give his first papal homilyRobert Francis Prevost: the moderate, good humoured first US popePope Leo’s in-tray: p...

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What will the new Pope be like? He’s chosen to be called Leo: that’s no accident | Catherine Pepinster

Popes who take that name tend to be progressive reformers. If Trump and JD Vance think they have an ally in the Vatican, I think notCatherine Pepinster is a former editor of The TabletShare your vi...

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The First Classical School on Capitol Hill

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments for allowing Oklahoma to fund a Catholic charter school. Two days later, President Donald Trump proposed a budget that would cut the Education Departmen...

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Christianity’s Thick Answer to the Problem of Evil

After college, I spent a semester interning in Washington, DC. One day I went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum. It’s a dark experience where you’re confronted with the tragic deaths of 6 million Je...

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Your Church Needs You to Show Up

Melissa Kruger and Courtney Doctor talk with Vanessa Hawkins about the vital and beautiful role the church should have in every Christian’s life. They discuss what keeps people from regular church ...

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Recovering Richard Lovelace: Why His Vision of Spiritual Renewal Still Matters

In 2020, Tim Keller revealed one of his most influential inspirations for his long and fruitful ministry: “Anyone who knows my ministry and reads [this man’s] book will say, ‘So that’s where Keller...

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Graduate, Step Up to More than the Podium

It seems like yesterday. I sat in the last row of chairs with my peers and classmates at the commencement ceremony. As my friends were called up to receive their degrees, a sense of dread overshado...

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Pictures of Jesus: The Resurrection and the Life (John 11:1–53)

In this lecture, Don Carson discusses John 11, focusing on Jesus’s delayed response to Lazarus’s illness and subsequent death. Carson highlights the irony in this account, illustrating how Jesus’s ...

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New Findings Challenge ‘Gender-Affirming Care’ for Children

In the United States, around 3.3 percent of adolescents identify as transgender, and a futher 2.2 percent question whether they might be. Rather than exploring why young people are 329 percent more...

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Interested in Spiritual Formation? Look to the Reformed Tradition.

As I made my way to bed, shedding the day’s clothes for fresh pajamas, I continued the conversation with God that had started when I was prostrate on the living room floor, nose squeezed into the g...

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The Most Prominent Christian Athlete in American History

At The Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, we talk a lot about front porches. It’s the (metaphorical, but sometimes literal) place where you can sit down with someone and talk as friends, even ...

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Faith Fatigue Is Real: What to Do When You’re Spiritually Burnt Out

We all talk about burnout in our careers, relationships, or parenting roles. But what happens when the burnout reaches your soul? When you feel distant from Allah despite praying, fasting, making d...

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Donkeys and Diviners Are Under God’s Hand

The story of Balaam (Num. 22–24) is a curious aside in the Pentateuch— and not just because it includes a talking donkey. Exodus through Deuteronomy tells the story of the Israelites, who follow M...

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The FAQs: What You Should Know About the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will gather in Dallas, Texas, with ancillary events beginning Sunday, June 8, 2025, and the two business sessions that constitute the official Annual Meeting s...

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I worked in the Vatican for 18 years – this will be the most unpredictable conclave yet | Ariel Beramendi

Will the cardinals follow Francis’s path or return to a more conservative doctrine? The white smoke will tell us which faction has won Ariel Beramendi worked at the Vatican for 18 years as an offic...

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Protect Joy in a Doom-and-Gloom News Cycle

After 30 minutes of doomscrolling, watching cable news, or catching up on the latest headlines, how many of us walk away with love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentlenes...

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‘The Hermanos’: 4 Friends Experiencing the Gospel’s Cross-Cultural Power

The four of us met more than 20 years ago. In 2003, Chip and Bryan cofounded Unite, a network of diverse Atlanta churches committed to developing authentic and collaborative relationships among chu...

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