Mike Cosper is the director of CT Media and the producer of Christianity Today’s podcast The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill. He’s the author of several books, including Recapturing the Wonder
As the Pre-Raphaelite painter William Holman Hunt was working on The Light of the World (1851–1854), his portrayal of Jesus knocking on a vine-covered door, he found perhaps an unlikely
Presbyterians continue to play an important role in American religious life. While making up less than 5% of the population today, historically Presbyterians have punched above their weight
On the 12th of January this year, British journalist and writer Paul Johnson died at the age of 94. Setting to the job of writing about him, it quickly started to seem as if 94 years were
Unless we live in the night when all cows are black, we occupy a multihued world whose contours become more distinct as light intensifies. Our tendency to simplify brings us deeper into the
Modern Christians typically visualize martyrs as historical figures, such as believers killed for entertainment in ancient Rome’s Coliseum. However, Christians of all varieties continue to
In the New Testament, Paul introduces himself to his readers as an “envoy” and an “ambassador” of Christ Jesus. While we might be quick to glance over such designations or translate them
A common experience for American conservatives is to hear a progressive call their policy positions “fascist.” Usually the connection between said policy and fascism is, at best, tenuous:
Long before American higher education became almost a wholly owned subsidiary of progressive thought control, literature departments fell much earlier to many of these same forces, with the
These days, many on the right are itching for revolution. Eager to dispense with what they believe is a hidebound conservatism that promoted restraint and narrow ideals at the cost of
When teaching Catholic social thought and business ethics, I warn against two reductionist fallacies. The first is the idea that government regulation is the solution to the absence of
Cormac McCarthy, whose stark, quintessentially American novels have frustrated, infuriated, and inspired a generation of writers, passed away at the age of 89 on June 13, 2023. He wrote to