“If Jesus was at the border, would Christians let him in?” Tisby asks in his new documentary. “All too often, it seems as if, not only would they not let him in, they would celebrate blocking him out.”
“If Jesus was at the border, would Christians let him in?” Tisby asks in his new documentary. “All too often, it seems as if, not only would they not let him in, they would celebrate blocking him out.”
In both cases, Christianity has been severed from the theological tradition that both limits it and gives it coherence.
The revival everyone is debating will not be measured in attendance figures. It will be measured in whether people feel known. And that starts with listening.
After the daughter and granddaughter of the late evangelist Billy Graham faced medical ailments, they wrote a book about a biblical character’s relatable life.
As Pope Leo XIV prepares to travel to Africa, its Catholic leaders are underlining the significance of the visit to the continent, where Christianity is on an upsurge.
The film’s textured, almost tactile, animation is combined with a soundtrack that blends folk music with sweeping orchestration to tell a story about unmerited grace.
Raised in Iowa, Kristin T. Lee grew up attending her parents’ Asian immigrant evangelical church while being steeped in the white evangelical Christian culture of the Midwest. She was left, however, with a disconnect between her Chinese American identity and the American version of evangelicalism.
“There simply isn’t enough capacity even for the local community. It’s much harder with a population that has been abandoned in places that are extremely difficult,” said Karen Perez, the country director for Jesuit Refugee Service in Mexico.
Though often linked to Black diasporas and Indigenous culture, honoring ancestors is deeply rooted in American culture.
“The Last Judgment,” Michelangelo’s vast fresco painted into the plaster of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel, is undergoing an extraordinary maintenance process in preparation for Easter, with a team of 20 restorers working in two shifts a day to remove a thin, milky residue that has built up due to the thousands who come to admire the masterpiece every day.
