One reader, who teaches at a seminary in Asia, told me that a student enrolled online had to drop out to care for his pregnant wife, who was living in a Thai refugee camp where the hospitals shut down due to the US aid cutoff.

The movie only anticipates some outcomes that are consonant with respect to the “catholic” (inclusive, all-embracing) direction that Jorge Bergoglio imprinted on the Roman Catholic Church.

The list is long of prophets and spiritual leaders who dared to speak the truth to rulers who crossed God-ordained thresholds – often at great cost. 

I hope we would agree that worship is more than song-singing.  Actually, worship is about revelation of God and response to God.

Western agencies must reskill to become effective intercultural facilitators, connecting people, skills, and resources behind Majority World strategies for mission.

There is a loss of comfort: the town is not what it used to be. There is indignation with the politicians. But there are also the unresolved questions: Why am I alive and others are not? Why did I lose only my car while others lost their homes and businesses?

As the church in Germany and in the West in general struggles with secularisation and decline, Lausanne reminded me: the Church is alive and vibrant.

The tension between two mentalities ("globalist" versus "sovereignist") affects all segments of society, including the Church.

We must call on Europe to make a critical assessment of the results of its policy of renouncing the biblical worldview. We must offer hope for revitalisation.

Silence in the midst of suffering is not a judgment of condemnation, but a purification of faith.

A Christian must be willing to sacrifice his or her life for Christ and His Kingdom, but not for the whims of the ruler of the day and his delusions of a ‘holy nation’ with its supposed ‘historic mission’.

Evangelicals globally are divided over Trump. But whatever our views, we can represent the gospel better by adopting a more servantlike politics.

God's intra-Trinitarian love overflowed for us, at the creation of all things, for our salvation, and to accompany the Church in its efforts to bear witness.

Few remember how distrusting, fearful and uncertain the post-war years of the late 1940s were, with lives, bodies, families, cities and nations having been broken, disrupted and destroyed. How do you rebuild out of such brokenness?

TWR broadcasts 16 programs each week over shortwave radio to encourage believers in North Korea.

Europe debates whether to accept Trump’s challenge to raise military spending to 5%. But followers of Jesus are not recognised by their political orientation, but by their affiliation with the God of Peace.

Letting the next generation step up.

More than 400 influential Christian leaders and 30 church groups sent an urgent appeal the last week of December to the president and the prime minister of India.

Users of Facebook, Instagram should now be even more careful when using social media. Meta no longer wants to rely on fact-checkers in future. A perspective from Europe.

Pundits warn that in 2025 we are heading back to the law of the jungle, a world where might is right and money manipulates.

The Church in our region is steadily declining, and the age distribution of its members gives little hope of growth. What do we need to change without losing the gospel?

Sometimes the pursuit of being “interesting” and “relevant” undermines the exegetical integrity of our ministry. 

May the church begin to present an emotionally intelligent community, who is able to weather the intricacies of human experience, choice, and seasons of belief.

“EF promotes constructive conversations that seek to edify, to understand”, writes the president of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance on the 10th anniversary of this journalistic project.

Jesus talked of wheat and tares growing up together. Here is a random sample of both in the last 25 years.